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HASKELL  JOURNAL' 

f\  Monthly  Magazine 


VoL  r.  SAN  FRANCISCO,  CAL.JANUARY,  1898.         No.  r  -(/ 


TABLE    OF     CONTENTS 

Announcement, 

Dudley  H.  Haskell,  .     - 

The  Haskell  Arms.     W.  G.  H., 

Carmel,     - 

Personal  History.    E.  W.  H., 

American  Hasfeells!     U.  G.  H., 

Editorials,  .... 

Genealogy  !of  R.  R.  Haskell,     - 

American  Parisians, 

Charles  IT.,  EU  B.  and  Charles  S.  Genealogy, 

The  Haskell  Arms, 

Our  Ancestor's  Trials,    - 

The  Coat  of  Arms, 

The  History  and  Genealogy,     - 


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ANNOUNCEMENT. 

This  Journal  is  sent  to  you  with  the  re- 
quest that  you  forthwith  send  your  subscrip- 
tion to  it.  The  further  request  is  made  thai 
you  Till  out  the  blanks  found  enclosed 
herewith  giving  in  detail  all  of  the  facts 
that  you  can  obtain  concerning  your  gen- 
ealogy. A  still  more  urgent  request-is  that 
you  send  to  us  the  name  of  overs  Haskell 
acquaintanceship,  either,«by 
birth,  blood,  or  marriage,  that  we  i 
them  a  sample  copy  of  this  Journal. 

The  reasons  tor  this  publication,  its  neces 
sity,  and  its  pertinency,  will  be  found  else- 
where stated. 

In  addressing  you    now,  we    have    not  to 
for   the  appearance    of    I 
n\i„  but  to  merely  state  the    reasons    that  in 
our  opinion  have  made  it  a  necessity. 

Over  one  thousand  years  ago  the  first  of 
our  name  of  whom  written  history  speaks, 
sailed  in  his  frail  undecked  hark  from  North- 
land to  England's  shores.  N'"t  ovei 
blue  waters,  nor  under  soft  and  tender  skies 
with  purple  sails  and  roses  twining  around 
his  mast, did  he    go;    '  open    boat 

with  sails  of  skin,  through  icy  seas,  with 
sword  on  thigh,  from  land  of  ice,  he  fought 
his  way  to  Britan's  shore. 

His  descendants,  Ironsides  under  Crom- 
well, following  his  example,  came  among 
the  earliest,  still  westerly  to  America,  and  it 
remains  for  their  successors  here  upon  the 
verge  of  the  uttermost  West,  close  to  the 
Orient,  to  say  to  the  five  thousand  of  our 
name  in  this  splendid  Republic  that  the  time 
has  come  when  the  glories,  the  honors,  the 
of  forty  generations  ol  the  Haskell 
family,  embracing  over  a  thousand 
recorded  time,  should  he  the  common  herit- 
v tv  niie  within  whose  v  ins  flows  a 
drop  of  that  old  Viking  blood. 

Not  that  by  recording  our  family  history 
and  telling  the  deeds  of  our  ancestors  and 
breeding  a  pride  of  birth  and  of  family,  we 
are  the  less  democrats  and  republicans.  On 
the  Contrary,  the  pride  of  birth,  the  pride  of 
home,  the  pride  of  family  ought  to  and  must 
join  together  in  building  up  a  lose  and  ador- 
ation for  the  nation    as  a  whole. 

A  mere  dog.  a  horse,  yes,  even  a  cat  is  sold 
in  the  markets  by  its  pedigree  and  it  is  ab- 
surd to    saj     that     human  beings    have    not 


racial    characteristics    am!       hereditary     im 

pulses.  h'or  instance,  so  remarkable  is  the 
Haskell  type  that  when  in  San  braneisoo 
twenty  of  us  assembled  together,  never  hav- 
ing met  before  personally,  we  could  have 
pas^d  fur  brothers  although  separated  by 
generations  of  kil 

It  is  a  fact  that  the  Haskell  famil; 
stalwart,  Sober,  silent,  as  it  is  and  lias  been 
tor  centuries,  can  trace  its  ancestry,  am! 
can  prove  it  in  a  cunt  of  law,  for  more  than 
"lie  thousand  years.  And  this  tile  Queen  of 
England  cannot  do. 

There  have  been    no  mong    us 

but  there   have     been  tllful,    and 

honest  men  and  women,  from  the  til 

the  Saxon  Bishop  bearded  his  King 
in  favorofthe  Wittegemote,  from  the  time 
when  Roget  de  Heiskell  at  the  battle  of 
3,  through  a  storm  of  arrows  brought 
a  refreshing  .apple  to  William  the  Norman, 
from  the  time  Ordegar  Haskell  trained  with 
Cromwell's  Ironsides  on  the  fensof  Lincoln- 
shire, from  the  time  when  Surrey  Haskell 
flashed  his  sword  for  Prince  Charles,  from 
the  time  when  William,  Mark  and  Roger 
landed  at  Salem  in  1632,  from  the  time  when 
George  Washington  in  his  personal  letter 
complimented  Prince  1!  iski  II  foi  his  courage 
in  the  Revolution,  from  that  time  to  this 
there  has  been  no  blot  upon  our  re 
no  shame  or  disgrace    attached  to    our  name. 

It  is  a  name  to  be  proud  of,  it  is  a  name  to 
cherish,  its  history  ought  to  be  familiar  to 
every   Haskell  and  in  every  detail. 

The  five  thousand  of  us  in  this  country 
are  brothers  in  I  ild  stand  or  fall 

together.     Ivvery  one  of  us  who  has  a  child 
should   teach  that  child  the   splendid 
of  our    race.      It  is  nut  .n    ennobled     1 
though  its  bio,,,!  has  been  allied  with  that  of 
kings    and     princes    in    the    past.      Put  it  is  a 
brave,  honest,  simple,  sturdy  people; 
an    intelligent    race   that    knows  and  has  pre- 
served, its  own  history,  and  it  is  well 
children  to  know  this. 

So  ■numerous   now  are  our   p 
onerous  the  duty  of  responding  to  ' 

inquiries  addressed  yearly  to  'the 
editors  upon  family  matters,  that  no  way 
has  seemed  possible  to  satisfy  what  appears 
to  be  a  general  family  demand  except  the 
publication  of  this  Jm  i:n\i..  Every  member 
n|  the  Haskell  famil  v.  and  all  who  h 


A S K  I •;  1 . 1 .     JOURNAL. 


in  them  the  Haskell  blood  should  secure  and 
keep  every  issue  of  this,  their  family  record. 
In  the  beginning  of  last  century  Masonry 
spread  its  network  throughout  the  civilized 
world,  and  mightily  assisted  the  struggle  of 
mankind  toward  liberty.  Today  a  thousand 
societies  based  upon  a  mere  financial  benefit 
bloom  and  flourish,  binding  together  the 
members  of  a  common  race  into  a  species  of 
fraternity.  Hut  we  here  in  this  country, 
this  magnificent  Republic,  numbering  live 
thousand  souls  the  grandchildren  of  those 
heroic    old    pioneers  who    braved    the    stom 

way  when  there  was  still  a  virgin  finest 
around  Plymouth  rock,  shall  we,  bound  to- 
gether by  the  veritable  tics  of  blood,  shall 
we,  in  whose  veins  still  circulates  the  ichor 
of  those  men  of  iron,  shall  we,  their  descend- 
ants, not  now  rally  beneath  our  own  (lag, 
and  however  widely  we  may  be  separated, 
from  Salem  to  San  Francisco,  become  one 
family,  one  blood,  one  society,  one  brother- 
hood, cousins,  brothers,  and  friends? 

The  mission  of  this  JOURNAL  is  to  accom- 
plish such  an  object  and  such  a  purpose. 

We  are   powerless  without  your  assistance. 

And  we  need  the  assistance,  the  help,  and 
the  active  support  of  every  member  of  the 
Haskell  family  in  the  United  States. 

Send  us  the  name  and  address  of  every 
person  of  the  Haskell  name  and  blood  so  that 
we  may  mail  them  copies  of  the  JOURNAL. 

It  is  urged  that  every  person  who  receives 
a  copy  of  this  paper  will  immediately  till  out 
with  the  utmost  possible  detail  the  blank 
enclosed  and  mail  it  to  the  editor  of  the 
Journal.  The  sooner  the  scattered  threads 
of  the  present  generation  are  gathered  and 
connected  and  placed  in  print  and  sooner  it 
will  be  possible  to  construct  a  complete  his- 
tory of  the  family  in  America. 

The  editor  of  the  JOURNAL  invites  from 
members  of  the  Haskell  family  brief  histories 

well  that  all  newspaper  clippings  whether 
good  or  ill  be  sent  to  him  to  be  published  as 
matters  of  current  news.  Correspondence 
upon  all  matters  of  interest  to  the  family  is 
respectfully  solicited. 

It  is  suggested  that  in  the  large  places 
some  one  person  of  those  who  receive  this 
JOURNAL  should  take  it  upon  themselves 
to  call  a  meeting  of  the  Haskells  in  that  vic- 
inage and  should  thereupon  organize  a 
branch  of  the  Haskell  Club  upon  the  lines 
laid  down  in  this  issue.  A  number  of  this 
paper  goes  to  every  Haskell  named  in  the 
current  directories  of   the  cities  of  the  Union 


so  that  the  organization  of  the  club  will  be 
but  little  trouble.  You  yourself  have  simply 
to  consult  your  own  d'irei  tory  and  call  a 
meeting  of  the  people  therein  named.  Will 
von  do  it,  and  do  it  at  once5  When  Mich 
club  is  formed  the  Journal  would  be  pleased 

to  have  you  select  some  one  member  as  a 
special  correspondent  of  the  JOURNAL  from 
youi  locality. 

We  are  satisfied  that  the  interest  is  so  gen- 
eral in  this  matter  that  we  ought  to  In-  able 
to  announce  in  our  next  issue  the  formation 
of  and  the  officers  and  membership  of  man >' 
of  these  suggested  clubs. 

The  Journal  is  preparing  to  print  in  col- 
ors and  with  proper  heraldric  embellishments 
with    mantlings,    supporters,  and    mottoes,  a 

plate  suitable  tor  framing,  of  the  arms  and 
crest  of  the  Haskell  family.  The  one  printed 
in  this  issue  is  merely  a  rough  engraving  in 
black  of  the  arms  and  crest.  The  Journal 
will  also  be  prepared  to  furnish  at  cost  to 
the  members  steel  dies  of  arms  and  crest  for 
s'ationarv. 


Among  other  things  the  Journal  will 
print  views  of  the  old  homesteads  'of  the 
family  in  America,  of  their  habitat  in  V ranee, 
and  of  Rowlstone  Castle  on  b'.scley  Brook  in 
Hereford,  England,  their  ancient  seat. 

The  last  pages  of  this  issue  of  the  Journal 
are  designed  to  be  detatched  and  bound,  and 
will  when  completed  form  a  eontinuous  his- 
tory of  the  family  and  every  branch  and  per- 
son of  it  from  the  earliest  day  to  the  present 
time.  Within  its  pages  commencing  with 
the  February  or  March  issue  will  be  printed 
two  old  manuscript  rolls  dated  1590  and  1720 
giving  the  ancient  history  of  our  race.  They 
will  be  printed  in  fac  simile  of  the  ancient 
text  with  an  appended  translation,  and  the 
colors  and  illustrations  of  the  original  manu- 
script will  be  religiously  observed.  No  Has- 
kell can  afford  to  be  without  every  issue  of 
the  lot  its  \i.  fnnn  number  one  until  this  his- 
tory" is  complete.  The  work  ot  publishing 
the  history  of  the  family  and  the  expense 
attending  it  would  be  too  enormous  loi  any 
private  individual  to  handle  with  any  hope 
of  a  profitable  return.  The  price  of  the  mat- 
ter if  published  as  a  single  work  at  once 
would  be  beyond  the  means  of  most  of  tis 
but  through  the  medium  of  this  JOURNAL 
and  by  publishing  the  matter  in  installments 
for  a  nominal  price  every  member  of  our  race- 
can  secure  a  copy.  The  price  of  the  JOURNAL 
is  placed  at  the  lowest  possible  margin  to 
pay  expenses  and  it  is  urged  upon  you  who 
receive  this  number,  that  you  yourself 
remit  your  subscription  price  aloncc  and  in- 
duce every  other  Haskell  that  you  know  of 
to  do  the  same. 


THE     HASKEI 


JOURNAL. 


HON. 


>rni. 


HAINF.S    HASKFXL 


(From  the  S.  P.  Daily  Examiner,  Dec. 8,  1S97.) 
"The  formal  announcement  has  been  made 
of  the  wedding  of  John  Charles  Adams  of 
Oakland  and  Miss  Ernestine  Shannon  Has- 
kell «>t  San  Francisco,  to  take  place  at  St. 
Luke's  Church,  San  Francisco,  on  Thursday 
evening,  the  r6th  of  December.  The  an- 
nouncement, while  not  unexpected,  has  at- 
tracted no  small  amount  of  attention  in  the 
social  set  about  the  bay.  John  C.  Adams  is 
one  of  the  heirs  to  the  rich  Adams  estate  in 
Oakland  and  a  one-third  owner  in  two  banks, 
n  large  amount  of  wharfage  and  water-front 
property,  incorporated  under  the  name  of  the 
California  Development  Company,  and  a  lot 
of  real  estate,  lie  is  a  graduate  of  Vale  and 
a  member  of  the  University  Club  of  San 
Francisco.  Miss  Ernestine  Shannon  Haskell 
is  the  daughter  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dudley  Haines 
Haskell  of  San  Francisco.  She  is  a  graduate 
of  the  Van  Ness  Seminary  and  the  Hamelin 
School  and  is  highly  accomplished.  Her 
father  was  formerly  an  attorney  for  the 
Southern  Pacific  Company  and  is  now  with 
the  California  Woolen  Mills.'' 


[From  the  S.  F.  Call,  Dec.  17.  1897.] 

St.  Mike's  was  crowded  with  a  large  and  fashion 

able  audience  last   evening   that    had    assembled  ti 

witness   the    nuptials   of    .Miss    Ernestine    Mi. hup  1 

Haskell,  daughter  of  Mr.   and   Mrs.    Dudley    Hainei 


Hsskell,  and  John  Charles   Adams,    the    well-known 
Oakland  banker. 

'riit.-oiTi.mMnv  was  celebrated  al  S:io,  o'clock, 
Rev.  Or.  Morelan'd  officiating. 

The  biide  was  alien. Id  by  seven  bridesmaids, 
the  Misses  Marv  and  Ktliel  Whitncvof  Oakland,  the 
Misses  Agnes  and  I'crnald  Bell,  Miss  Agnes  Simpson 
and  the  Misses  Bessie  and  Geraldine  Scapham  of 
Oakland. 

Kdsom  Adams  brother  of  the   groom,    0 
as  best  man,  and  the  ushers  were  Sam   Bell    McKee, 
I.augdon    Fastou.   George    V.    Hind,    Albert    Avres, 
Sidney  M.  Van  Wyck,  Will  Powning  and    M.    Saton 
Ashe.' 

After  the  ceremonv  there  wasa  reception  iorthe 

parlies  al  the  residence  of  the  bride's  parents,  at    Lhe 


ei  iru 


Webster 


The  bride  wore  an  elegant  gown  of  white  moire 
velours.  I'he  long-trained  skirl  was  finished  with  a 
ruche  of  chiffon.  The  corsage  was  cut  straight 
1  1  s  the  shoulders  and  finished  with  ,1  fl 
deep  old  pomi.  A  veil  and  wreath  of  •  itural orange 
blossoms  completed  the  elegant  costume. 

The  bridesmaids  were  attired  alike  in  white 
organdie  over  white  silk-  and  green  silk.  The  Misses 
I-thel  Whitney,  Marv  Whitnev,  Agnes  Simpson  and 
1'ernald  Bell  wore  the  rose  and  white  gowns,  and  the 
other  young  ladies  were  in  green  and  white.  The 
bridesmaids  were  all  blondes,  and  in  their  dainty 
costumes  made  a  most  charmiug  picture  slowly  ]>re- 
ccding  the  lovely  bride  as  she    marched  to  the  altar. 

F.ach  bridesmaid  received  from  the  bride  a  tiny 
■:  igger  stick). in  as  a  souvenir  of  the  happy 

Mr.  and  Mrs  Adams  will  leave  toda>  for  an  Fast- 
en! wedding  tour,  and  may  possibly     taking  a  living 

trip  to  Fun  .pe  before  their  return. 


THE    HASKELL  JOURNAL 


THE   HASKELL   ARMS. 


Some  Interesting  Letters  Cu 
Origin  and  a  Bit  ol   Vi 


Apropos  l: 


Lewiston,  Maine,  September  20,  1a 
niette  (7.  Haskell,  I 
:  Sir:  Your  most  welcome  favoi  ol    tli 
me  i"  hand  last    evening.     If  inj    lasi 
tny  degree  acceptable  to  you— I  almost 


The  Editor  of  the  Journal  has  been  en- 
gaged for  nearly  twenty-five  yearsin  collect- 
ing the  data,  which  it  was  absolutely 
necessary  to  accumulate  in  order  to  make  any 
publication  ol  the  Haskell  history  and 
genealogy  a  success.  Among  somewhere 
near  ten  thousand  letters  received,  were  the 
following  ones  from  the  Reverend  William 
Garrison  Haskell,  Pastor  of  the  Bates  street 
Universalist  Church,  Lewiston,  Maine. 

These  letters,  together  with  the  rhyme 
referred  to,  follow: 

Lewiston,  Maine,  Septenibct  2,  [878, 
Burnelte  C.  Haskell,  list].,  San  Francisco,  1  a/. 

Dear  Sir:  Yours  of  22nd  ult.,  with  accompanying 
blanks,  was  received  on  Saturday.  I  will  gladly  give 
m\  personal  attention  to  the  distribution  ol  the 
blanks,  and  will  trv  and  place  them  "where  they  will 
do  the  in'  st  goi  d." 

I  do  mt  know  it  I  told  you  in  my  former  letter 
that  much  material  svas  secured,  some  years  ago,  for 
a  genealogical  record  of  our  family.  I  did  a  large 
amount  ol  ssoik  for  it,  at  the  instance  of  an  old  gen- 
tleman—a  resident  ol  Boston-  Charles  Haskell  by 
name.  He  had,  1  shi  uld  think,  800  or  1000  pages  of 
fool-cap  MSS.,  and  was  still  pushing  his  investiga- 
tions, as  long  as '61  or  '<>_>.  During  my  absence  in 
the  arms,  lie  died,  and  my  utmost  endeavors  to  linil 
trace  of  those  MSS.  were  unavailing.  Much  of  lus 
matter  had  reference  to  such  historical  facts  in  rela- 
tion to  the  family  as  ci  uld  be  obtained  in  England. 

I  seriousl)  contemplated  making  a  proposition  to  a 
few  of  our  wealth v  New  ICngland  Haskells,  to  make 
a  subscription  and  send  some  one  of  the  family  to 
foi  the  purp  ise  ul  collating  such  matter  as 
could  be  gathered.  The  one  or  two  to  whom  I  men- 
tioned it  were  favorably  impressed  with  the  sugges- 
tion, and  there  was  a  disposition  on  their  part  to 
make  me  their  representative  for  that  purpose.  Hut 
the  failing  health  of  my  wile,  and  the  necessarily 
constant  devotion  to  her,  absorbing  mv  time  and 
thought,  the  matter  fell  through,  and  nu  one  has 
seemed  to  take  up  the  responsibility. 

1  notice  upon  your  envelope  the  Haskell  crest. 
But  it  has  besides  the  'apple  tree  fructiferous," 
which  I  have  found  in  "Fairbairn"  and  one  or  two 
other  Heraldric  Cronicles,  the  displayed  anus.  Can 
you  tell  me  the  authority  for  this  attachment?  I 
know    the   legend,  with   which    I    suppose    you    are 

certainly  appropriately  displayed,  it  the  h  end  hi 
true.  Will  yen  also  tell  me  where  5  ou  found  the  nu  tto? 
It  is  not  clearly  impressed  OH  your  envelope  .  but  as 
nearly  as  I  can  make  it  out  it  reads  "Graguer  honle, 
aymer  loyaute." 

'Cragnez  honle,  aywez  loyaute" (Norman  French.) 

Is  it  ancient  French  or  Norman?  And  where 
did      you      find    it.'  You    see      1      am      at     least    a 

curious  Haskell.  I  long  ago  thought  ol  having  the 
.rest  engraved;  but  1  couldn't  find  the  motto;  and  it 
seemed  incomplete  without  it.  Pardon  my  impor- 
tunity m  tins  regard  but  since  you  have  taken  so 
active  an  interest  111  the  family  history  .  a  similar  in- 
terest by  me  will,  1  fancy,  be  appreciated. 

It  in  any  way  I  can  render  you  further  assistance, 
I  beg  that  you  will  command  my  services. 

May  I  ask  troni  what  branch  of  the  family  you  are 
iles,  ended.'  And  whether  my  father's  cousin,  Major 
Leouidas  Haskell,  for  some  years  a  resident  ol  San 
Francisco,  was  a  relative. 

Yours  very  truly, 

William  Garrison   IIAskki.i.. 


dityjn  ,'.',' 


aking  than  in  'inheriting    "gen- 

,  ,  iv  confess  that  the  s  11 

most  certainly  apply  i"  determ- 


ine 


Your  letter  and  especially  the  "anus"  which  sou 
were  so  thoughtfully  kind  as  to  send  to  mi  ,  1  onfirm 
11,  m\  own  hi  lief,  at  [<  ai  t.  the  tradition  <  urn  11 1  iii 
our  family;  that  we  are  "well  derived."  I  am  but 
indifferently  acquainted   with    heraldry.     But    there 

afford  something  in  evidence  of  the  quality  ol  our 
"strain."  I  almost  hesitate  to  name  them,  because 
you  are  doubtless  already  familiar  with  them.  Hut  I 
do  KO  at  a  venture,  inasmuch  as  '.scare  both  Haskells. 

First,    then,    the    escutcheon    itself    is     Norman 
"L'ancien  ecu,"     as  the  French  name  it.     It    is   per- 
haps a  trifle— this  matter  of  form  of   the  shield— but 
it  has  a  meaning  well  indicated  l>\   "L'ancien." 

Second.  Its  field  is  vair  01  fur.  If  my  memory 
serves  me—  I  base  no  access  as  I  write  to  any  work 
on  heraldry— vair  1-  derived  from  the  fur  with  which 
the  robes  of  only  nobles,  or  nobles  and  knights  were 
lined. 

Third.  The  colors— argent  and  sable— are  those  ol 
such  as  had  rendered  the  bearers  noteworthy,  the 
combination  indicating  unblemished  reputation,  (I 
have  just  bethought  me  ol  the  [encyclopedia.  I  find 
its  article '-Heraldry"  confirms  what  I  have  written  I 
With  Gerald  Leigh  for  authority,  "Argent  com- 
pounded with  Sable,  means  the  >  ielding  11 
lire."  "Sable,  the  ancieutest  anion-  colors,  com- 
pounded with  Argent  it  means  famous." 

Fourth.  It  is  without  charge  or  device.  Anciently, 
we  know  it  was  the  opinion  that  Mich  were  of  highest 
honor:  not  as  Leigh  says  of  a  "field"  full  ol  charge, 
but  empty  of  honor. 

Fifth,  it  bears  the  "fesse  or."  The  fesse.oi  w  ust- 
belt  of  honor,  was,  as  is  well  known,    one   ol    the    in- 

tainly  at  least  imply  that  the  bearer  was  a  knight  of 
no  mean  power  and  wealth. 

Ms    impression     is     that     the  'Shield    111  pretence, 

gules,"  was  the  Lies] arms,  thus  borne  as  warranted 

to  "the  husband  of  an  heiress,"  carried  on  the  rolls 
of  15110,  but  in  the  Surrey  (1720)  description,' left  out 
as  not  appertaining  distinctly  to  the  Haskell  family. 
'I  1,  .  is  the  I'  gi  nd  -  f  the  crest  1 1  do  not  distinctly 
reiuembei  from  whom  1  received  it,  but  I  think  from 
the  now  deceased  I  h  rh  II  ell  ol  Bosh  n  1  \l  the 
battle  of  Hastings,  William  the  Conqueror,  being 
faint  from  lack  of  food,  saw  111  the  distance,  near  the 
linesol  Harold,  an  apple  tree  iii  fruit.  Expressing 
his  belief  that  one  01  twool  the  apples  weld  revive 
him  until  the  fortunes  of  the  day  should  I 
one  of  his  attendants  (probabl)  a  knight)  Roger  or 
Rogetde  lleiskel  byname,  dashed  forward  and  amid 
a  showi  1  ol  the  enemy's  arrows  si 
to  his  sovereign  a  scarl  filled  with  the  fruit,  where- 
upon the  Coiiqiu  roi    h  ah    him  li  crest, 

ing  apple  tree,  crossed  or  pierced  by  a  Using 
•  irross  I  do  not  recall  whether  the  legend  represents 
the  knight  as  mortally  wounded;  yet  I  have  a  vague 
impress,,,,,  that  so  it  ran.  li  so.  the  "Fidelea  Mort  ' 
would  seem  appropriate.  To  be  sure,  one  can  build 
little  upon  these  legends;  but  the  season  ol  the  year 
when  the  Conqueror  met  and  ovtrcome  Harold  was 
certainly  "apple-time,"  and  there  is  no  inherent  mi- 
Mr  .  I  h  irles  Haskell  was, 
in  the  truth  of  the  legend.      1 


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THE   MASK 


JOURNA] 


had  strong  grounds  for  his  belief,  for,  mucli  like  all 
Hie  Haskels  I  have  known,  he  wanted  "a  reason  ror 
the  hope  that  was  in  him,"  I  think  he  must  have 
had  a  copy  of  the  eoal-uf-arms,  and  only  marvel  that 
he-  nevei  showed  it  to  me,  il  he  had. 

I  remember  that  I  was  conversing  with  him  at  one 
lime,  shortly  after  I  had  read  an  article  on  Heraldry 
in  some  magazine,  the  article  meutioning  particu- 
larly i  liit  many  families  in  America  had  assumed  Ihe 
arms  and  crests  ol  some  noble  or  knight  wliosv  uauu- 
they  bore,  but  from  whom  thei  were  not  descended, 
and  to  which  of  course  the)  werewo/  entitled.  The 
old  gentleman  replied  to  one  of  inj  questions,  "Yes' 
but  vou  see  even/  Haskell  has  a  right  to  this  crest, 
(naturally  also  the  anus)  for  there  was  but  one  Has- 
kell (lleiskel,  or  possibl)  even  Hascalle)  to  win  it, 
and    '  .  ■        we  are  si  I  fr  mi  him." 

So  m  in)  years  hav c  y.\- scd  since  I  sit  about  gath- 
ering what  facts  I  could,  in  relation  to  the  family, 
and  the  most  of  my  labor  has  been  spent  in  corre- 
spondence and  personal  interviews  with  New  Eng- 
land (and  especially  Massachusetts!  Haskells,  that 
the  little  I  recall  is  mostly  ol  local  nature,  and  does 
nol  reach  very  fni  back.  That  and  more  you  will 
doubtless  gather  from  your  blanks. 

I  am  glad  you  mean  to  delay  publication  until  you 
have  as  nearly  a  complete  record  as  ma)  be  possible. 
And  will  you  permit— 1  am  sure  you  will— a  sugges- 
tion or  two.  I  do  not  know  you— save  by  correspon- 
dence—and  so  of  course  know  nothing  "I  your  means 
for  carrying  forward  the  weak  you  have  undertaken. 
It  is  not  common,  I  know,  for  Haskells  to  "begin  to 
build  without  counting  the  cost.''  But  this  I  know- 
that  the  publication  of  anything  like  a  complete 
genealogy  cannot  be  undertaken  except  at  a  very 
considerable  expense.    Now.  the  Haskells  of  the  East, 

though  few  Of  them  as  far  as  1  know  are  wealthy, 
are  rarely  poor;  and  1  feel  sure  that  not  a  few  of 
them  would  gladly  hear  a  part  ot  the  expense  of 
pre]  aring  and  publishing  the  work  you  haw  in  hand. 
Might  it  not  be  well  then— you  are  of  course  the  bet- 
ter judge.— to  ask  of  those  who  can  afTurd  to  do  so,  to 
forward  you  a  sum  proportionate  to  their  estimate  of 
the  worth  (to  them)  of  the  work? 

Then— though  this  may  he  rather  late — might  it 
not  l.e  well  to  record  what  has  become  of  female  Has- 
kells, i.e.  into  what  families  they  have  married? 

1  enter  with  no  small  degree  of  enthusiasm  into 
your  project,  and  I  beg  to  assure  that  it  will  l.e  re- 
garded as  a  privilege  il  I  may  be  permitted  to  assist 
you  in  any  possible  way  in  my  power.  My  pastoral 
■  us  you  perhaps  know,  I  am  a  clergyman) 
dots  not  so  fully  occupy  my  time  that  1  cannot  spare 
many  hours  or  even  days,  for  work  of  this  sort. 
Were  it  possible  for  me  to  afford  the  expense,  1  should 
certainly  visit  in  person,  a  number  of  Haskells  in 
this  Mate,  and  elsewhere  in  New  England;  for  we  are 
along-lived  race,  (I  hear  of  one  Haskell  in  Knox, 
this  Mate,  who  is  i,5  soars  ,.|  age),  and  it  can    lintiU) 


Afti 


ik«  lis 


sion  ol  valuable  information  regarding 
But  I  am  doing  what  I  may  by  correspoi 

I  receive  more  of  the  blanks  I  shall  pr. 
to  send  you  a  goodly  number  of  tin 
filled,  as  |  am  almost  dail)  hearing  of  s 
before  unknown  to  me.     " 

Anything  further  that  I  may  be  able  to  do  for  you, 
1  beg' you  will  feel  perfectly  free  to  ask. 

Yours  very  truly, 
\Y.  G  iRRISON    II  ISKEM.. 
!'.  S.      The    Major    Leonidas    Haskell    of    whom    1 
spoke  in  my  last  letter,  as  formerly  of  San  Francisco, 
has  been  dead  some  sis.  ir  more  years. 

\V.  G.  H. 
Lewiston,  Maine,  January  to,  1879. 
Burnette  G.  Haskell,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 
My  Dear  Sue  Yours  Dec.  29th  was   received   on 

just  as]   was    leasing    home    for    a    day    or 
1  take  great  pleasure  in    replying   at   my 
earliest  convenience. 

So  there  is  a  poem,  explaining  the  origin  (?)  of  the 


arms.  But  I  quite  agree  with  you  that  the  legend 
should  be  taken  "cum  grano  salis"  in  fact,  'with 
several  grains.  Asyousuggest.no  name  is  given 
the  Crusading  hero,  and  lor  aught  we  know,  he  may 
have  been  the  original  John  Smith.  A  vague,  but 
oni\  a  vague  hint  of  his  time  scenis'to  be  contained 
in  the  line 

"Brought  Godfrey  and  his  royal  train," 
locating  it  near  the  close  of  the  nth  or  early    in    the 
[2th  century.     But  the 

"Sweet  silver  hells  on  sable  shield," 
though  decidedly  pretty  in   poetry,  is  a  little  wide  of 
truth,  and  seems  to  indicate    that  the    iliwuestcr  had 
devoted  hut  little  attention    to    heraldry.      The    arms 

are  not  bells  at  all.  The)  are  vair—  fur— taking  their 
shape  from  the  glass  \esscl  m  which  the  furriers 
were  used  to  whiten  furs.  At  least,  so  says  excellent 
heraldic  authority.  It's  a  pity  to  spoil  a  iieal  bit  ..I 
romance;  but  I'm  afraid  we  shall  have  to  look  else- 
where to  discover  the  true  origin  ..f  the  emblazon- 
ment.     Perhaps  the  apple    tree   origin  of  the   crest 

Let's  keep  a  little  romance  in  the  history,  somehow 
"Our  girls"  will  want  it    by  and  by. 

Can  you  tell  me  why  vour  engraver  has  crowned 
the  shield,  ill  the  "anus"  heading  your  letter-sheet, 
with  an  esquire's  helmet?  Dosen't  '  Carmel"  say 
that  the  "noble  sire"  (possibly  John  Smith  1  "plied 
well  his  sword  with  knightly  fire?"  Surely  an  her- 
ald:.- .  ne  i.uii  01  desiguel  must  know  that 'the  "helm 
with  beavei  closed"  is  that  of  a  plain  esquire  or  gen- 
tleman ;  that  of  a  knight  or  baronet  "wit  h  heaver  ap, 
my  lord."  lam  reminded  of  something  I  saw  in 
New  York  a  few  years  ago'  It  was  upon  the  panel  of 
a  carriage— a  helmet  aj/ronte,  with  Sl.\  bars.  I  was  a 
little  curious  to  know  if  here  was  a    family   of    royal 

bl 1,  as  the  helmet  indicated.      Hut    upon  inquiry,  I 

discovered  that  the  carnage  had  been  ornamented 
by  a  very  clever  painter,  who  only  knew  tnat  a  ■:, 
met  was  panted,  and  he  took  as  his  model,  the  first 
picture  of  the  article  that  he  could  find.  Some  New 
York  newspaper  man  discovered  the  same  thing  and 
poked  a  little  fun  at  it.  ami  the  helmet  was  changed 
for  that  of  a  "gentleman." 

I  hope,  my  deal  sir,  that  this  little  stricture  upon 
your  engraver  will  not  he  misinterpreted.  I  beg  to 
disavow  any  and  all  pretensions  to  a  knowledge  of 
heraldry,  sufficient  to  warrant  my  criticisms.  1  did 
a  few  years  ago  devote  a  little  time  to  the  matter, 
having  rather  unusuaa)  facilities  which  I  did  not 
want  to  neglect.  The  engraver  may  he  nearer  right 
than  1.  I  mean  to  have  a  die  cut,  as  soon  as  I  can 
reasonably  determine   '.,  hat  to  have  ail. 

I  really  wish  I  had  something  ol  interest  to  write. 
But  I  feel  assured  from  the  thorough  manner  in 
which  Mr.  Albert  E.  Haskell  and  vou  are  evidently 
performing  your  labors,  that  whatever  is  really  trust- 
worth  v  and  valuable  will  be  discovered  bv  vou.  I 
think  the  family  may  congratulate  itself  that  it  pos- 
sesses two  members  whose  means— and  farm. .re  than 
that,  whose  inclinations  enable  and  prompt  them 
to  perform  such  a  work  as  you  have  imposed  upon 
yourselves.  Genealogies  there  are,  by  the  se,,r,  ,., 
hundred;  but  1  very  much  question  if  any  of  them 
give  greater  evidence  ol  pains-taking  labor,  than 
yours. 

-.  regret  the  lack  of  interest  ill  the  matter 
which  is  evident  by  the  slowness  of  some  to  whom  I 
have  written  to  make  return  of  their  blanks.  Perhaps 
some  of  them  are  afraid  the  family  may  prove  like 
growing  potatoes  the  best  of  then  1  uiidi  r  the  ground. 
But  I  confess  to  a  pardonable  curiosity— to  give  no 
better  name — to  know  whether  the  underground 
portii  11  of  the  family  were  "small  potatoes"  or  great. 
In  fact,  as  I  think  I  have  said  ill  a  former  letter,  it  I 
i  horse,  I  must  have  his  pedigree;  and  I 
know  of  no  argument,  ancient  or  modern,  which  will 
disprove  that  if  "blood  will  tell"  in  a  horse,  it  will 
equally  "tell"  in  a  human   being. 

[thank   you    cordially     for    your    very    interesting 


Tin-:  iiaskki. 


JOURNAL 


letters,  and  can  only  regret  the  paucitv  of  infoi 
tion  bearing  upon    the    subject    in    which     we 
mutually  interested,  whi<  h  mine  contain. 
Yours  vei  y  truly, 
W.  Cakh  ishn  Mask  EI 
P.  S.     I  have   cut   the  engraving   from  the   li 
before  me,  and  shall  send    it    to-day  to    uij  bro 
Frank  A     Haskell,  at  Dexter,  Kansas,     li--  is  . 
good  painter,  and  is  to    paint   me,    foi    framing, 
"arms,"  i  re-t  and  motto.  ;^  soon  as  1  can   feel  \>i 
sure  of  them.     Can  I  ask  you   at    some    future   I 
foi  anelhci  copj  ol  this  engraving?     By    the    \vi 
see  you  do  not  use  the  "l'idelea  Mort,"     u  lij  ' 
\V.  G.  I 

CARMEL. 


Then  raised  be  high  his  kingly  face, 
And  spoke  to  knight  and  lord  around 

"In  all  thy  life;  with  all  thy  grace, 
Thou  shalt  not  find  a  king  so  crowned, 

As  is  this  knight  with   honor's  crest; 

And  since  no  arms   blaze  on  his  shield, 
I  grant  his  tomb,  his  spirit  these: 

Sweet  silver  hells  on  sable  field. 
And  know  ye  gentles  round  about, 

What  though  thy  life  hath  sable  spells 
Yet  keep  heart  pure  and  courage  stout, 

And  life  complete  is  Carruel's  bells." 


A     PERSONAL     NARRATIVE. 


(The  Legi    I  of  the  Gi     I  I      H     tell  Arms.)       The  I  ifc  Histoi 


>m   I M 


In  ancient  days,  a  noble  Sire 

With  dauntless  heart  and  spotless  shield, 

Swuug  high  his  s word  with  knightly  fire 
On  many  a  bloody  l'aynim  held. 

From  lingland's  isle  so  s\\  eet  and  dear, 
He  came  to  Syria's  burning  plain, 

Content  to  die  if  he  might  heat- 
But  once  Mount  Carmel's  bells  again. 

For  erst  in  years  ere  youth  had  fled- 

A  beardless  knight   with  sword  untried- 
He  charged  o'er  tie-Ids  of  Moslem  dead 

And  kept  his  place  by  Tancred's  side. 
And  in  the  night  when  summer  stars 

Shone  strange  upon  his  bloody  steel, 
He  he;  rd  upon  the  weeping  air, 

The  hells  of  fair  Mount  Cannel  peal. 

They  spoke  to  him  of  honors  'way, 

Of  strange,  high  duty,  blazing  clear, 
Of  love  they  sang  a  solemn   lay 

Of  tears,  of  sighs,  of  tire  and  fear. 
And  though  on  high,   heroic  field, 

In  castle  halls  or  ladies  bower, - 
In  mem'ry's  crypt  the  bells  still  peal'd 

As  in  that  silent  midnight  hour. 

His  king,  his  friend,  his  lady  fair, 

He  served  in  life  with  loyal  zeal,- 
For,  ever  in  the  trembling  air 

He  heard  the  hells  of  Cannel  peal. 
The  tale  is  drear,  the  tale  is  old,- 

The  king-forgot  his  servant's  name, 
The  friend-he  stole  his  land  and  gold, 

The  dame-she  sold  his  love  for  shame. 

For  this  he  left   fair  England's  realm, 

And  came  to  Syria's  bloody  plain, 
There  led  the  hosts  with  lofty  helm 

That  he  might  hear  the  hehs  again. 
The  lie-Id  was  won-the  leader  lay 

His  blood  enstaining  Carmel's  height, 
The  while  from  monkish  pile  above 

The  hells  streamed  soft  upon  the  night. 

And  in  the  morn  when  hasty  steeds 
Brought  Godfrey  and  his  royal  train 

He  knew  too  late  the  good    knight's  deeds, 
And  kneeling— wept  he-side  the 


A.  I' 

The  personal  and  urgent  solicitations  and 
entreaties  of  my  eldest  son  and  the  absolute 
impossibility  of  otherwise  avoiding  his  im- 
portunities, are  the  only  reasons  that  have 
induced  me,  at  the  advanced  age  of  sixty 
years,  to  write  these  few  incidents  of  lin- 
early life  and  that  of  my  more  immediate  an- 
cestors. 

I  am  perfectly  aware  of  the  fact  that  my 
life  contains  but  little  worthy  of  note  and  less 
that  is  worths- of  preservation;  hut  my  son 
insists  that  every  event  of  my  life  will  he  of 
interest  to  tnose  who  shall  come  after  me. 
Though  I  doubt  his  premises  and  reject  his 
conclusions,  yet  as  I  feel  that  the  hi  ndrui 
record  will  interest  and  amuse  him 
other,  I  have  at  last  acceded  to  his  request 
and  the  following  hastily  written  recollec- 
tions are  the  result. 

I  am  supposed  to  have  come  into  this  sinful 
and  wicked  world  on  or  about  the  2d  day  of 
December,  A.  I).,  1819,  in  the  town  of  Bar- 
nard, Windsor  County,  and  State-  of  Vermont. 
Giorious  old  Green  Mountain  State!  which 
three  days  since  sent  greeting  through  the 
civilized  world,  of  thirty  thousand  majority 
in  favor  of  liberty,  law,  justice,  Republican 
Government  and  James  A.  Garfield,  liver 
since  my  recollection  she  has  he-en  true  as 
the  needle  to  the  pole  to  those  principles  and 
policies  which  were  calculated  to  best  pro- 
mote the  happiness  and  prosperity  of  all  the 
people,  and  now  she  gives  us  renewed  assur- 
ances of  steadfast  devotion  to  those  princi- 
ple--. May  she  always  in  the  future  keep  so 
near  the  right  that  the  shade  of  her  moun- 
tains shall  he  retlected  in  the  hearts  of  her 
suns  auu  daughters.  Baptised  in  the  bloo- 
of  the  Revolution  at  Bennington,  ami  giving 
freely  of  her  blood  and  treasure  in  every 
emergency  of  her  Country  since  that  time, 
she  would  he  worse  than  a  parricide  if  she  did 
not  now  uphold  and  maintain  those  princi- 
ples of  liberty  which  est  so  dearly  to  acquire 
and  maintain  s.  1  long. 

My  parental  grandfather  was  Prince    Has- 


THE  HASKELL   I'TUNAI 


-1^ 


Nath 


kell,  and  my  parental  Grandmother  Leah 
Wilder.  Maternal  grandfather  ami  Mother 
Timothy  Newton  and  Abigail  Earle. 

Both  my  grandfathers  were  captured  by 
the  Indians  in  the  year  at  the  time  Royalton 
was  burned,  ami  taken  prisoners  to  Can 
ada.  <'ne  -Timothy  Newton  -escaped  from 
his  captivity  ami  returned  home  through  the 
trackless  wilderness  ami  reached  his  home 
after  great  hardship  ami   suffering    in    about 

months  from  the  time  of    his    captivity. 

The  other.    Prince    Haskell,  was   exchanged 

after  remaining  a  captive  for . 

My  great,  great  grandfather  was  named 
Charles  Edward  Haskell.  Mis  wife  was 
Eleanor  of  the  same  name.  They  had  hut 
one  son,  Nathaniel,  who  married  I.vdia  Fos- 
ter and  had  for  issue  Princi 
grandfather. 

The  picture  hereto  annexed 
manuscript,,  is  that  of  my  tin 
Haskell,  son  of  Prince  llaskeli  and  my  lath- 
er's brother.  He  was  a  banker  at  Loudoil- 
ville,  111,  and  died  about   1871. 

The  issue  of  Prince  Haskell  and  Leah  Has- 
kell, nee  Wilder,  were: 

My  father,  Edward  Wilder  Haskell,  Mich- 
ael Haskell,  Prince  Haskell,  Nathaniel  Has- 
kell, Harriet  Haskell,  Adeline  Haskell, Maria 
Haskell. 

The  issne  of  Timothy  and  Abigail  New- 
ton were: 

Earl  Newton,  Barnabas  Newton,  Josiah 
Newton,  Ira  Newton,  Uoxey  Ann  Newton, 
Elizabeth  Newton  and  Elutheria  Newton. 

My  mother.  Roxey,  married  Lyman  Stew- 
art;   Elizabeth    married    Clark    Chamberlain; 

Earl     married Dean,  a     sister   of     Amos 

Dean  a  celebrated  lawyer  of  Albany,  New 
York. 

Barnabas  Newton  was  an  artist,  and  I 
recollect  a  very  beautiful  medallion  picture 
of  himself  upon  ivory,  in  possession  of  my 
mother  when  I  last  knew  of  it. 

Josiah  and  Ira  settl.d  in  the  Western  Re- 
serve. State  of  N.  V.  They  each  raised  large 
families,  and  each  became  quite  wealth  v. 

Josiah  was  a  General,  whether  of  inilita  or 
in  the  regular  army  1  do  not  know. 

My  father  was  a  farmer.  The  extent  of 
his  landed  possessions  [do  not  know,  There- 
were  two  orchards  upon  the  place,— one  back 
of  the  dwelling  house  and  no  great  distance 
off,  and  the  other  upon  the  opposite  side  of 
the  road  and  some  distance  beyond  "Pond 
Brook,"  the  name  of  the  stream  that  ran 
through  the  place. 

1  recollect  going  to  the  latter  orchard  with 
my  father.  lie  asked  me  if  1  was  tired.  I 
have  Dot  seen  the  place  since  I  was  eight 
years  of  age. 

My  father  also  "kept  tavern"  as  they  called 
it  in  those  days. 

He  also  had  a  small  factory  for  the  manti 
facture  of  woolen  goods:  also  for  coloring  ..• 


dressing  the  fabrics  woven  by  the  thrifty 
women  of  the  surrounding  country.  1  can 
recollect  that  about  once  each  week  the  'bit; 
gate"  of  the  mill  dam  would  be  raised  for  the 
purpose  of  clearing  tin-  sediment  from  the 
dam.  And  when  the  gate  was  closed  again 
leaving  the  stream  below  nearly  dry,  the  rare 
sport  the  men  used  to  have  in  gathering  up 
the  large  line  speckled  trout  from  the  pools 
below  the  dam  -some  of  them  weighing  two 
pounds  each. 

The  house  in  which  I  was  born  was  of  two 
stories  and  attic  — the  lower  story  of  brick. 
To  the  right  of  the  house  on  the  same  side  of 
the  10.1.I  was  a  row  of  tenement  houses  for 
the  use  of  the  "factory  hands."  [mmediately 
in  front  of  these  last  upon  the  opposite  side 
of  the  road  w  as  the  "factory." 

In  front  of  the  "tavern"  upon  the  opposite- 
side  of  the  road  was  a  shed  for  the  shelter 
and  protection  of  the  teams  of  travelers.  Ad- 
joining that  was,  .m  the  left,  a  stable  lor 
horses.  Still  farther  to  the  left  was  a  barn 
for  the  hay  and  grain. 

Father  was  not  a  robust  or  healthy  man. 
His  intelligence  was  very  superior  for  that 
time  and  country.  I  have  heard  my  mother 
say  that  as  public  speaker  or  in  argument  he- 
had  no  superior  in  that  region.  My  recollec- 
tion is  that  he  was  about  live  feet  eleven 
inches  while  my  grandfather,  Prince,  was  I 
think  as  much  as  six  feet  two  inches.  My 
own  height  is  five  feet  eight  inches.  Brother 
Chauncey  the  same,  and  brother  George  five 
feet  nine  inches.  The  Haskell  branch  of  the 
family  were  all  tall  while  the  New  tons  were 
short.  My  son  Burnette  is  five  feet  nine 
and  a  half  inches. 

My  father  was  kind  and  affectionate  in  his 
family,  and  t  have  often  heard  my  mother 
say  that  during  the  fifteen  years  of  their 
married  life  not  acrussorunkind  word  passed 
between  them,  lie  died  at  the  early  age  of 
—  of  consumption  or  some  kindred  disease. 
The  children  of  the  marriage  were: 
Elutheria  Haskell.  Edward  Wilder  Haskell. 
George  Washington  Haskell. Chauncey  Has- 
kell and  William  Cullen  Haskell. 

William  Cullen  died  at  the  age  of —  years, 
and  Elutheria  at  the  age  of  thirteen.  My 
sister  as  I  can  recollect  her  and  as  I  have- 
been  informed  was  very  beautiful. 

Two  or  three  years  after  father's  death,  my 
mother,  was  wedded  to  Jl  Seph  Blodgett  of 
Randolph,  <  (range  Co.,  Vermont. 

lie  had  heard  of  the  smart,  sprightly  widow. 
He  came  and  saw,  and  the  next  morning  re- 
turned the  same  road  whence  he  Came.  My 
mother  wondered  what  it  meant.  After 
awhile  lie  came  again.  And  again  returned 
the  same  road. 

In  due  time,  he  came  again  and  made  his 
wishes  known.  Just  how  long  a  time  was 
consumed  in  coming  to  an  agreement  I  do 
not  know.      If  I  have  been  told     I     have     for- 


gotten.  They  lived  happily  together  to  the 
last.      He  died  in    the   State   of   Wisconsin 

about years    ago.     My    mother     is   still 

living  in  Wisconsin  with  sour-  of  lier  daugh- 
ters by  the  second  marriage.  She  has  visited 
and  spent  three  years  with  me  here  in  Cali- 
fornia. 

When  she  left  me  to  return  to  Wisconsin 
she  was  considered  remarkably  smart  and  ac- 
tive for  a  woman  of  her  age.  She  is  now 
ninety  years  of  age. 

1  was  fortunate  in  having  kind,  affection- 
ate and  loving  parents  My  stepfather  was 
equally  kind  to  me  during  the  fifteen  years 
that  1  lived  with  him  and  he  with  me.  Dur- 
ing all  that  time  1  never  had  cause  to  com- 
plain of  him,  and  I  hope  ami  believe  I  never 
gave  him  occasion  to  find  fault  with  me.  lie 
certainly  never  did. 

Hut  for  my  dear  mother,  who  is  living,  I 
cannot  find  words  sufficient  to  express  all  the 
love  and  veneration  1  feel  for  you.  Your 
uniform  kindness  and  love  since  1  was  old 
enough  to  know  you,  fill  my  heart  with 
gratitude  winch  can   never  be  obliterated. 

May  the  remainder  of  your  lite  here  upon 
earth  be  as  peaceful,  quiet  and  happy  as  it 
has  always  thus  far  been,  and  if  it  shall  be  my 
misfortune  never  to  meet  yon  again  in  this 
world,  we  each  have  the  consolation  of  know- 
ing that  when  we  meet  in  the  next  there  is 
nothing  but  the  most  kindly  remembrances 
between  Us. 

Aii  revoir,  dearest  and  best  of  all    mothers. 
Others  may  have  as  good  but  none  better. 
[To  he  Continued.] 


lid    expect 

people,  a 

orcl  with    t 


lanrs  o 


[Prom    tiii:    Historical    Coi.i.e<  rioxs   i 
Essex  Institute  Vol.  xxxii,  is,, ,  ] 

A  Short  Account  of  the   Desecn 
Wm.  Haskell  of  Gloucester,  Ma 

BY  ULYSSES  C.  HASKELL,  BEVERLY, 


The  name  Hascal,  Hascall,  Ilascol,  Hascoll, 
Haskal,  Haskall,  Haskel,  Haskil,  Haskill 
Haskol,  Haskoll,  Haskul,  Haskull,  Hascbal 
Haschall,  Heskell.  Heiskell,  spelled  various 
other  ways,  but  more  generally  spelled 
"Haskell,"  is  stated  in  Arthur's  "Etymolo- 
gical Dictionary  of  Family  and  Christian 
Names,"  to  be  of  Welsh  orgin,  from  "hasg," 
meaning  a  place  of  rushes,  or  a  sedgy  pi  u  e, 
and  "hall"  or  "hayle"  a  moor,  or  marsh,  so 
thai  the  name  would  appear  to  signify,  "a 
place  of  rushes  in  the  marsh"  or  "tin 
place." 

If  it  is  true  as  often  stated  that  individuals 
become  known  by  the  [dace  of  their  habitat- 
ion, it  is  probable  that  some  of  the  name 
lived  in  a  "sedgy  place  on  the  moor,"  wl  I 
would  not  appear  to  have  been  a  very  heal 


history  of    the  family. 

"Asgall"  in  the  Gadic  signifies,  a  sheltered 

place,  a  retreat;  and   with  the    addition  ol   till 
aspirated  "II"  might  make  the   name. 

THE   HASKELL   FAMILY   IN'    AMERICA. 

It  would  be  difficult  to  find  among  the 
early  settlers  of  New  Kngland  a  single 
family  whose  genealogy  would  interest  more 
persons  than  that  of  the  Haskell  family,  and 
as  yet  there  has  been  but  little  attempt  made 
to  preserve  any  information   relating  thereto. 

The  first  settlers  of  the  name  in  America 
appear  to  have  been  the  three  brothers, 
Roger,  William  and  Mark,  the  patriarchal 
heads  of  the  familv  in  this  country. 

Rogei  was  the  eldest  and  Mark  the  young- 
est of  the  trio  who  probably  came  to  New 
England  together  from  Bristol,  Kngland,  as 
early  as  1637,  for  they  are  all  three  found  to 
have  been  very  early  settlers  in  that  part  of 
Salem  which  is  now  Beverly. 

Roger  was  born  in  Kngland  in  1613  and 
died  in  Salem  (now  Beverly),  in  1667,  where 
he  had  permanently  resided,  and  is  the  an- 
cestor of  most  of  the  persons  of  the  name 
now  residing  in  Beverly  and  near  vicinity, 
through  his  descendants  are  not  very  numer- 
ous. 

He  was  a  mariner,  and  engaged  in  the 
fishing  business  with  a  fish  house  on  Winter 
Island  in  Salem  harbor.  In  his  will  he 
mentions  his  brothers  William  and  Mark, 
and  in  1070  William  was  appointed  guaidian 
of  his  son    Samuel. 

William  was  bom  in  Kngland  in  1617,  re- 
sided in  Gloucester,  Mass.,  where  he  died  in 
1693,  and  will  receive  further  attention  111 
this  article. 

Mark  was  born  in  Kngland,  date  un- 
known, and  first  settled  in  Salem  (now 
Beverly),  with  his  brother  Roger,  and  is  said 
to  have  removed  to  IMyniouth  win  re  lie  left 
descendants,  but  nothing  further  is  definitely 
known  of  him  other  than  that  he  is  mentioned 
in  In-  brother's  will  as  before  stated. 

It  is  stated,  however,  by  Mr.  l'cilev  Derby 
of  Salem,  Mass.,  that  this  Mark  settled  in 
Beverly  where  he  died  in  1686-9,  «"ith  an 
estate  of  .,70  pounds,  and  that  he  was  un- 
doubtedly the  youngest  of  the  three 
brotheis;  was  a  mariner  engaged  in  the  fish- 
ing business,  and  left  descendants  who 
settled  in  Marblehead,  Mass..  and,  -inter- 
married with  the  White  and  Coombs  fami- 
lies. 

The  second  brother,  William  Haskell,  is 
the  ancestor  of  most  of  the  Haskells,  in  this 
country.  His  posterity  is  believed  to  be- 
much  more  numerous  than  that  of  any  other 
of  the  early  settlers  of  ( lloucester,  where  he 
permanently  resided.      A     large    nun 


IK    I  [ASK 


still  to  be  found  in  that  place  and  large 
numbers  are  scattered  abroad  over  the 
country.  From  this  prolific  stock  emigrants 
have  gone  forth,  who  whether  they  braved 
the  dangers  and  hardships  of  pioneer  life  in 
the  forests  of  Maine,  »r  sought  a  kinder  soil 
than  their  own  more  settled  regions,  or  en- 
gaged in  handicraft  and  trades  in  the  marts 
of  business,  have  generally  sustained  the 
character  for  usefulness  and  respectability 
which  the  family  has  always  borne  in  its 
more  ancient   seat. 


William  Haskeel,  the  first  of  the  name 
to  settle  in  Gloucester,  then  called  Cape 
Ann,  was  horn  in  Kngland  in  [617,  came  to 
New  England  about    1637  with  his   brothers 

Roger  and  Mark  with  whom  heat  first 
settled  in  the  part  ot  Salem,  now  Beverly, 
then  known  as  Cape  Ann  Side,  and  sub- 
sequently became  a  permanent  resident  of 
Gloucester,  where  he  died  August  20,  1693, 
leaving  an  estate    valued  at  54S    pounds,  12s. 

He  1 1  r -^ t  appears  in  Gloucester  in  i"4.;  and 
in  1045  mention  is  made  of  his  land  at 
Planter's  Neck  where  he  probably  resided 
for  a  few  years  following  the  latter  date,  hut 
the  information  obtained  from  the  recorded 
births  of  his  children  affords  grounds  for  the 
conjecture  that  he  was  not  a  permanent 
resident  from  that  time. 

If,  however,  h.e  left  town  for  a  season  he 
had  returned  in  1656  and  settled  on  the 
westerly  side  of  Annisquam  river  where  he 
had  several  pieces  of  laud,  among  which  was 
alotoi  ten  acres  with  a  house  and  barn 
thereon  bought  of  Richard  Window,  situated 
on  the  westerly  side  of  Walker's  creek.  His 
two  sons  took  upland  on  both  sides  of  this 
creek  which  is  still  occupied  by  his  descend- 
ants. 

He  was  a  mariner,  anil  was  engaged  in  the 
fishing  business,  and  was  known  as  captain 
and  lieutenant. 

The  public  offices  to  which  he  was  chosen 
atloul  sufficient  prool  that  he  was  a  promi- 
nent and  useful  citi/en.  He  was  selectman 
several  years,  ami  a  representative  to  the 
general  court  six  times  in  the  1  ourse  of 
twenty  years.  In  1661  he  was  appointed 
by  the  general  court  lieutenant  of  the 
"trayned  band"  of  which  he  was  afterwards 
captain: 

It  is  stated  that  in  1688  "some  feeble  but 
magnanimous  efforts  of  expiring  freedom" 
were  exhibited  in  the  refusal  of  several 
towns  to  assess  the  tax'-s  which  the  Gover- 
nor, Sir  I'.dmund  Andros,  and  Council  of 
New  England  hail  levied  upon  them.  One 
of  the-i-  towns  was  Gloucester,  seven  of 
whose  citizens,  namely:  William  Haskell, 
Sen.,  James  Stevens,  Thomas  Riggs,  Sen., 
Thomas  Millett,  Jeffrey  Parsons,  Timothy 
Some  re  and  William  Sargent,  Sen.,  were 
fined  at  the  Superior  Court  at    Salem  for  the 


1  I. ill! 


11! 


Somers  a  constable.  All  but  Somers  were 
lined  forty  shillings  with  three  pounds  ami  a 
shilling  added  lor  fees.  Somers  was  let  oil' 
on  payment  of  fees  only. 

In  1681  he  was  one  of  the  petitioners  to 
the  King  praying  for  the  crown's  interposi- 
tion to  prevent  the  disturbance  of  titles  to 
real  estate  at  Gloucester  by  Robert  Mason 
who  had  made  claims  thereto. 

At  the  general  court  in  1685  one  Grace 
Dutch  was  appointed  adminislratoi  of  her 
husband  Osmond  Dutch  "with  the  advice  and 
assistance  of    Lieutenant     William    Haskell." 

He  was  nne  of  the  first  of  two  of  whom 
we  have  any  knowledge  who  were  deacons 
of  the  first  church  at   Gloucester. 

lie  married  November  i'i,  1643,  Marjr, 
daughter  of  Walter  Tybbjt,  who  died  four 
days  before  her  husband,  by  whom  lie  had 
the  following  children: 

2     i         Will. ,1111.  1).  Aug.  2f>,  I'll 

5     iv       toll  11,  !>.-— .  K.J.I. 


SECOND  GENERATION. 

2  William  Haskell,  called  junior,  was 
born  August  26,  1644,  and  died  June  5,  170S, 
aged  sixty  four  years,  in  Gloucester,  Mass., 
where  he  had  always  resided,  leaving  an 
estate  valued  at  000  pounds,  consisting  of 
land,  buildings  and  farm  stock. 

He  owned  an  extensive  grist  and  saw  mill 
which  fell  in  the  division  of  his  estate  to  ins 
son  William. 

This  mill  was  probably  situated  in  what 
is  now  the  town  of  Rockport. 

He  married,  lulv  ;.  1  67.  Marv  Walker, 
daughter  of  William  and  Mary  Brown  who 
took  the  name  of  her  stepfather  Henry 
Walker,  and  who  died  November  .  2,  1715. 
aged  sixty-sis  years. 

lie  had  children  born  as  follows: 

11  i         Mary,  b.  April  29,   lOl  S;   111     ' 

Sept.     1  |.    n>S7,    and    Uzekiel    W Iwaril, 

12  ii         William, 1 

1:     iii       Joseph,  b.  April  2      11 

14  i\       Abigail,    l>.  March    2,    if.75;  m.    Nathaniel 

I'ai  -   11s,  1  ii  c.  27,  ii  i)7,  ami  I 
I  'it'.   11 

15  i        llenrv,  Ii.  April  2,  i(>;.S. 

.(,     vi      Andrew,  b  Jill;    :  I.  /  14,  16S0. 

17     vii      L).lia,  b.Sept.4,  if,8i. 

is     viii     Sarah,  l>.  l-eb.    26,  11     |     il    I  el 

iy     is       lili/.abelh,    b.    April    5    i(iS(>;   111      1 

Sargent    >ep  Coil 

frey.June4.17j-. 
211     x  Hannah         U  I;  cl.  I'eb.  15,    l(>yl. 

\ii  11,   1692;     111.  hi 


thf. 


3  Joseph  Haskell  was  born  June  :, 
1640,  resided  in  Gloucester,  Mass.,  where  he 
died  November  1:,  1 7  -  7 .    aged    eighty  years. 

He  was  a  deacon  of  the  fust  (.lunch;  and 
upon  its  formation  was  chosen  deacon  of  the 
second  church  in  Gloucester.     He  was  also  . 

selectman  for  several  years. 

He  married  December  2,  1674,  Mary 
Graves  of  Andover,  Mass.,  who  died  April  8, 
1733,  aged  eighty-one  years,  and  by  whom 
lie  had  the  following  children,  namely: 

23     1         Mnry,  l>.  Anril  29,  1(17(1:  m. Lord, 

.■1     ii       Walter,  b.  Nov.  18,    1677;  d    Nov.    .'-',11.77. 
.»5     iii       1-li/ahelh,  1).  Oct.  24,  1679;  d.  Oct.  S,  1700. 
2(i     iv        |oseph,  I'.  Nov.  .'7.  11. Si. 
.'7     v        Hannah,    b.   Oct.    30,    16S3; m.    a  Davis, 

probably   Aaron. 
2S      vi         Dorcas,    l>.    March     7,     I0S5;    m.     l-lir/cr 
Hubbard,    ..I'    Salisbury,   Mas-.  Dec.    l(., 
1 7 1  ->. 
29    vii       Daniel,  b.  Dec.  16,  toSS. 
;  .     \iii     Kbenezer,  1>.  Keb.  22,  1690. 
;i     ix        Dorothy,   1..    Nov.    is.    1694;    m.  ; 

Goodhui  .  of  Ipswich,  Ma\  9,  1;  • : 
.^2     x        Naomi,   b.    Dec.  2fi,   1696;  m.    Isaac    Frye, 
(  »ct.  1  -,.  1725. 

4  Benjamin  Haskell,2  was  born  in  164s, 
resided  in  Gloucester,  Mass.,  where  he  died 
in  1740,  aged  about  ninetv-two  years.  I  lis 
will  was  proved  May  25,  1741. 

He  was  a  housewright  by  trade,  was  often 
one  of  the  selectmen  of  the  town,  was  a  re- 
presentative to  the  general  court  in  [706  and 
in  1707,  and  was  a  deacon  of  the  first  and 
second  churches  for  many  years. 

lie  married  November  21,  1077,. Maty, 
daughter  of  Thomas  Riggs,  who  died  Janu- 
ary 29,  1698,  aged  thirty-nine  years,  and  by 
whom  he  had  the  following  children; 

;,;,  i  Elinor,  b.  Aug.  26.  167S:  m.  Daniel  Ring, 
— ;  .1.  June  10.  1713. 

.-,4     ii        Hannah,  b.  Dec   7,    1679;    d,  Dec.  S,  1679. 

55  ii  Patience,  b.  June  1,  ibSi;  111.  John 
Roberts,  March  17,  170;,. 

;'.     iv        Benjamin,  1>.  March  13,    I'.s;. 

47     v        John,  b.  April  1.  10K5;  d.  num. 

#  vi  Sarah,  b.  — ,  1080;  in.  a  Pride,  probably 
l'eter. 

.|i     ix       William,  b.  Api  i 

5  John  Haskeli.,2  was  bom  in  1649,  re- 
sided in  Gloucester,  Mass.,  where  he  died 
February  2,  171s.  at  the  age  of  sixty-nine 
years. 

He  was  probably  the  John  Haskell  who 
served  in  the  Indian  war  of  1075,  with  the 
sixteen  men  from  Clour  ster,  being  nearly 
one-fourth  of  all  its  male  citizens  1 
bearing  arms.  This  large  levy  shows  the 
exigency  of  the  occasion. 

A  lot  of  land  was  granted  him    December 
I,     situated     at      Kettle     Cove,  for    his 
services  in  this  war. 

In  1683  he  was  a  deputy  to  the  general 
court. 

lie  married  in  May  or  Novembet     . 
Mary  Baker,  who  died    November    2.\,    172^, 
aged  fifty-eight  years,  and  by  whom  he    had 
the  following  children: 


■  1.  April  21,  i'.s'.. 


24, 


throe  v< 
John.'b. 


1     Doth  (1.  young,. 
-    >S,    .',,;.    11,.     I. a.n    C,.ark, 
1,  an. I  removed    to   Wind    am 
she  died  a;  the  age 


[09  il  tiled    Sept.     v., 

1774.  oliildl.     .  .1    11.. I     1  bachelor,  though 
it  has  been  slated   that   he  probably  mar 
ricd    1  .:  :■  e    Cummings,     Mas      [(.,     1723, 
hut      he  cerlainlv  died  withonl 
'I'll.-  name  then  for.  pel  iietuated 

i„  this  branch  of  the  family. 

7     Mark    Haskklt.,:  was    horn     April  R, 
ch  d  in  Gli  in  ester,  M:,-s„    where  he 
died    September    S,    1691,    aged  thirty-three 
years. 

He  married  December  1'.,  1685,  F.li/.abetli 
Giddings,  supposed  to  have  been  the  daugh- 
ter of  Lieutenant  John  Giddings  of  [psw  ich, 
Mass. 

His  willow  married  John  Dennison  of  Ips- 
wich. The  probate  records  show  thai  Mark 
and  William  Haskell,  children  of  Mark,  re- 
ceived January  16,  1725, of  their  "honoured 
father  in-law  Mr.  John  Dennison,  and  their 
honoured  mother  Mrs.  rvli/abeth  Dennison' 
alias  Haskell,  both  of  Ispvvick," 
money  due  from  the  estati  1  tin  it  grand- 
father William   Haskell. 

His  children  were  as  fi  illi  i\\  s 

49  i         George,!).  Oct.  r\  KiXd;  d.  Nov.    10,   ihSo 

50  ii       M  irk    h    -   pi 

51  iii       William,  1,.  Jan.   1,    16S9   90 

s     Sarah  Haskell,   was   horn  June    28, 
i66o,  and    from    the  probate     papers    of  her 
father's     estate     appears     to     have 
February  5,  [6S4,  Edward  Haraden  ol   Glou 
cester,  Mass. 

Rev.  John  Adams  Vinton,  however,  in  his 
memorial  of  the  Vinton  famil)  states  on 
authorityof  Mr.  Kbenezer  Poole  1 
port,  Mass.,  who  claimed  to  have  been  ouc 
of  her  descendants,  that  she  married  Richard 
Woodbcrry  of  Beverly,  Mass.,  December  to, 
1(17.),  and  makes  no  mention  of  the  marriage 
to  Haraden.  Richard  Woodberrj  was  a  son 
of  Humphrey,  who  was  born  in  Somerset- 
shire, England,  in  1009,  and  came  to  Cape 
Ann  in   1624,  and  thence  to  Beverly. 

After  said  Richard's  death  Sarah  married 
John  Poole,  who  was  horn  in  Taunton,  ling- 
land,  in  1070,  and  came  to  Beverly  in  1690, 
ami  thence  to  Rockport,  Mass.,  in      - 


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and  genealogy  complete,  or  who  desire  extr;i 
copies,  that  they  shall  let  us  know  within  the 
next  twenty  days.  We  cannot  guarantee  to 
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BOARD  OF  PUBi  ICATION 
D.  H.  Haskell,  20  Sansome  St.,  Cal.  Woolen  Mills, 
R.  R.  Haskell,    115  Kearney  St.,     Diamond  Merchant. 
B.  C.  Haskell,    1346  Market  St.,  Attorney. 

(iii;uksi'hmm:mi:  siu.h  itkd 


JANUARY,    [898. 


SALUTATORY. 

We  think  that  the  reasons  for  the  publica- 
tion of  this  JOURNAL  are  obvious.  We  be- 
lieve as  well  that  the  contents,  the  artistic 
appearance,  and  the  typographical  character- 
istics of  the  paper  need  no  excuse.  Yet  good 
as  they  are  they  will  he  hereafter   improved. 

A  wealth  of  material  comprising  thousands 
of  genealogies,  hundreds  of  interesting  letters 
and  biographies,  and  monographs  embracing 
researches  in  every  State  of  the  Union  and 
many  countries  of  Europe, — the  result  of 
twenty  live  years  of  labor,  --can  only  be  given 
to  the  family  in  this  method  and  by  this  way. 

There  is  capital  enough  secured  to  guar- 
antee the  success  of  the  enterprise.  Hut  if 
every  Haskell  in  the  l/nited  States  will  come 
at  once  to  the  front  with  his  subscription,— 
not  only  for  himself  but  101  each,  of  the  chil- 
dren of  his  family, — the  next  issue  of  the 
JOURNAI,  may    be  double  the  present  si/.e. 

The  editor  invites  detailed  and  friendly 
correspondence  from  every  subscriber  upon 
all  matters  connected  with  our  name  and 
with  their  own  genealogy,  adventures  and 
history.  He  especially  asks  that  the  geneal- 
ogical blank  enclosed  in  this  number  be  filled 
out  and  forwarded  at  once.  He  suggests  al- 
so that  in  view  of  the  great  amount  of  inter- 
esting matter  yet  to  be  published  that  im- 
mediate response  be  made  to  the  contents 
of  this  number. 


A   VISITOR   FROM   ABROAD. 

Mrs.  Helen  M.  Haskell  Thomas,  the  wile 
of  Seymour  Thomas,  the  American  artist 
sent  by  the  legislature  of  the  State  of  Texas 
to  Paris,  and  herself  of  no  mean  ability, 
arrived  with  her  husband  in  New  York  a 
mouth  or  so  ago  where  they  were  the  guests 
of  some  of  our  best  people,  including  John 
Swinton  of  the  New  York  Sun,  and  Joseph 
R.  Buchanan  of  the  "American  Press  Asso- 
ciation." They  are  now  on  their  way  to 
Los  Angeles,  from  thence  to  San  Francisco, 
and  from  thence  to  New  Orleans,  in  all  of 
which  places  Mr.  Thomas  has  portrait  com- 
missions. 

Mr.  Thomas  is  the  painter  of  the  celebrated 
picture  which  hundreds  of  our  subscribers 
doubtless  saw  at  the  Chicago  Exposition,  and 
which  has  been  engraved  and  re-engraved 
many  times;  :t  is  called  "A  Chance  Shot," 
and  represents  a  dreary  and  desolate  battle 
held  in  the  Franco-Prussian  war,  with  the 
Red  Cross  ambulance  in  the  background,  and 
in  the  foreground  four  striking  figures,  one  a 
nun  supporting  a  lovely  sister  novice  whom 
a  stray  bullet  has  struck  to  death.  At  the 
foot  of  the  innocent  victim  lies  a  man 
wounded  to  death  but  rising  ami  gazing  with 
pity  in  his  face.  A  Red  Cross  officer  am!  an 
assistant  support  the  dying  woniGti. 

Mrs.  Haskell  Thomas  is  herself  an  artist, 
as  said  before,  of  no  mean  ability.  One  of 
her  pictures  has  been  this  year  hung  upon 
the  line  in  the  Paris  Salon. 

Their  trip  to  America  is  merely  to  fill  com- 
missions that  have  been  engaged  during 
their  residence  in  Paris. 

The  father  of  Mrs.  Haskell  Thorn.-  is  Ed- 
ward Wilder  Haskell,  still  living,  and  her 
three  brothers  are  Burnette  G.,  ben  B.,  and 
Edward  Prince,  all  of  California,  though 
lien  1!.  was  born  in  Ohio. 

NOMENCLATURE  CURIOSITIES. 
In  looking  over  the  genealogies  of  one 
branch  of  the  Haskell  family  in  America  de- 
scended from  one  of  the  Salem  brothers,  a 
Haskell  cousin  interested  in  our  history  has 
made  the  following  summary  of  the  various 
names  found  in  that  particular  branch  since 
the  year  if>.;2,  anil  furnishes  us  for  publica- 
tion with  the  following  summary  showing 
how  many  times  the  names  have  been  re- 
peated in  the  same  branch.      The    figures  fob 


'I1K   HASKKU.  JOURNAL 


lowing  each  name  show  how  many  times  it 
appears  in  the  past  two  hundred  and  fifty 
years. 

It  is  amusing  to  note  that  in  dozens  of 
cases  where  a  child  has  died,  that  the  parents 
have  a  racial  habit  of  naming  a  second  child 
with  the  same  Christian  name.  There  ap- 
pear to  be  many  occasions  when  there  were 
twins  bum,  although  in  this  particular  branch 
no  triplets  are  observable.  The  list  is  as 
follows: 

Aulas  Abraham  3,  Abner,  Alexander  2, 
Amos  4,  Aaron  5,  Abigail  14,  Andrew  3, 
Adoniram  2, Anna  l.s.Abimelech,  Amy,  Asa,;, 
Almira  2,  Abel.  Agnes,  Abby,  Albert  2, 
Amelia,  Alamson,  Adela,  Amanda,  Allie,  Ar- 
thur. 

Betsey  3,  Benjamin  iS,  Barnabas  2,  Bildad, 
Branford,  Broderick,  Bertha  2. 

Craig,  Caleb  3,  Comfort  2,  Charles  7,  Cyn- 
tha,  Cyrus  2,  Carl,  Clarissa.  Caroline,  Cabin, 
Clarence  2,  Clement,  Cedric,  Catherine. 

Dorthy,  Daisy  2,  Daniel  11,  Dorcas  2,  De- 
liverance,  David  4,  Holly,  Dudley,  Deborah, 
Daison. 

Ellen,  Eugene,  Emery,  Lsther  3,  Lll'reda, 
Ezra  2,  Eleanor,  Enoch  3,  Editha,  Ebenezers, 
Elizabeth  23,  Elinor  3,  Experience,  Elijah  5, 
Edward  7,  Elias  4,  Elmer,  Eunice  2,  Eliza  3, 
Eben,  Eulalia,  Ephram  2,  Epes,  Eudora,  Eli, 
Emily  3,  Emma,  Edwin  6. 

Francis,  Frederick  2,  Frank  6,  Fannie, 
Forbes,  Florence. 

George  13,  Grace,  Gertrude,  Gardner. 

Henry  5,  Hannah  8,  Ilitty,  Humphrey, 
Horace,  Hubbard  3,  Holton,  Hester,  Helen  2, 
Harriet,  Harry  4. 

Isaac  7,  Israel  2,  Ignatius,  Ida. 

Joseph  15.  John  31,  Jacob  S.Josiah  5,  Jemi- 
ma 6,  Jedediah,  Jeremiah  3,  Jonathan  12,  Ju- 
dith 6,  Joel,  Joshua  4,  Jerusha,  J. me  3.  Job  3. 
Joanna.  Jabe/,  Josephine  2,  James  4,  Jessie, 
Julia. 

Keziah,  Keturah. 

Lizzie,  Lydia  3,  Lucy  10,  Lueretia,  Lemuel 
2,  Leonard,  Levi  2,  Loomis,  Leonidas  2, 
Luther,  Louisa,  I.ucien,  Lucia,  Laura  2,  I.a- 
vina  2,  Llewellyn,  Louis,  Lois. 

.Mark  5,  Mary  25,  Moses  7.  Merry  4,  Molly 
2,  Martha  5.  Medapha,  Mehitable  4,  Murray, 
Mica  jab,  Mana,  Marrietta,  Margaret. 

Nellie,  Naomi  2,  Nehemiab  3,  Nathaniel  9, 
Natha  n  6,  Nancy  2,  Noah    1 . 

Orinda,  Oliver  2,  Ortega 


Sarah  30,  Samuel  5,  Susanna  4,  Sol  anon  3, 
Sybil,  Susan  5,  Simeon  2,  Stephen  5,  Sally  2, 
Sophia,  Sewell  3.  Serena. 

Phineas.i,  Patience  2,  Prudence,  Philemon, 
Peter,   Pomroy,    Phebe. 

Robert,  Roger,  Ruth  9,  Rachel  4,  Reuben, 
Roxanua,  Rebecca  4,  Riley,  Roy. 

Thomas  s.  Thankful  2. 

Ulysses. 

William  46,  Walter  3.  Ward,  Willis,  Wil- 
son, VVoldo. 

Zebulon  2. 

A  SUGGESTION, 


a.j 


Thomas  Haskell,  son  of  Mark  and  Ruthie 
Haskell,  of  Marblehead,  was  married  to  Mary 
Phillips,  daughter  of  Joshua  and  Grace 
Prentis  of  Marblehead,  on  the  21st  day  of 
February,  1790. 


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Thomas  Coombs  Haskell,  son  of  Thomas 
and  Ruthie  Haskell  of  Marblehead,  was  mar- 
ried to  Mirriam  F.  Pitman,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Pitman. 

Children  of  Thomas  Coombs  and  Mirriam 
F.  Haskell: 


Reuben  R.  Haskell, 

ii.S  Kearney  St. 
San  !•  rancisco.  1  >ec.  21 >,  1  807. 


AMERICAN   PARISIANS. 

ris,  Maine 


lfrom  the  Ilistorj  ol   i  a  the  set- 

tlement  to  1SS0,  with  a  history  of   the  grant 
and  1771,  together  with  persona]    sketches, 

1  ,il  Registei  ami  an  appendix,    by    Win.  I!. 
Lapham  and  Silas  T.  Maxim,  Paris,   Maine.     Printed 
ml  hors. 

Chapter  IN, — Contest    kok   Inco 
TION. — Petitions  and  Remonstrances. 


Iv  HASKKLL   rOURNAl 


lonstr 


>r  rath 


To  the  Whole  Court. 
emorial  dt'  a  number  of   the  inhab 
twnship  or  plantation  known  by  tl 


The  n 
ants  .if  t 

name  of  number  four,  in  the  county  of  Cum- 
berland and  commonwealth  of  Massachusetts, 
humbly  showeth  that  whereas  your  memori- 
alists are  apprehensive  that  some  of  the  in- 
habitants of  said  township,  without  consider- 
ing the  inability  of  the  inhabitants,  about 
petitioning  to  the  Honorable  Court  to  incor. 
porate  said  township  into  a  town  which,  with- 
out some  better  information,  might  incline 
the  Honorable  Court  to  think  that  the  in- 
habitants of  said  township  in  general,  are 
wealthy  and  are  able  to  bear  the  burdens  of 
a  tax,  which  your  memoralists  hereby  pre- 
sume to  say  is  not  the  ease  with  them,  but 
quite  the  reverse,  manv  of  us  being  new  be- 
ginners and  laboring  under  many  embarrass- 
ments, are  hardly  able  to  support  ourselves 
and  families,  being  yet  involved  in  debt  tor 
our  land  and  have  no  resource  but  the  sub- 
duing of  the  rough  and  uncultivated  wilder- 
ness, which  will  afford  us  no  surplus  alter 
our  real  necessities  are  supplied;  add  to  it 
our  hard  labor  and  uncomfortable  cottages 
the  cost  of  transportation,  being  fifty  miles 
from  market  and  rough  roads,  the  charge  of 
which,  to  them  that  hire  them  transported,  is 
nearly  one-half  'lie  value  of  the  produce; 
which  puts  it  out  of  the  power  of  many  to 
procure  clothing  to  screen  themselves  and 
families  from  the  severity  of  the  inland  win- 
ters. While  the  greater  part  of  the  inhabit- 
ants la'. or  under  the  aforesaid  disadvantages, 
and  the  anditional  burden  of  clearing  and 
making  roads  in  said  township,  any  supplies 
drawn  from  them  by  taxes,  would  deprive 
them  of  some  part  of  the  scanty  means  of 
their  substance,  and  to  be  incorporated  into  a 
town  in  our  present  condition,  we  conceive 
would  not  serve  to  relieve  us  from  any  of  our 
present  burdens  nor  assist  Us  to  avoid  anv 
future  evils.  We  therefore  accordingly  wish 
that  our  present  vigorous  exertions  to  place 
ourselves  in  a  situation  equal  with 0111  fellow- 
citizens  in  wealth  and  ability,  may  not  be  in- 
terfered with  by  any  burdens  laid  on  us  that 
our  infant  state  cannot  support,  and  that  the 
Honorable  Court  will  take  our  case  into  wise 
consideration,  and  let  us  remain  in  our  pres- 
ent .state,  until  the  period  of  wealth  may  ar- 
rive, your  memorialists  as  in  duty  bound  will 
ever  pray. 

i  Signed  by i 

Nathaniel  Haskell,  with  forty-nine   others. 
*  H=  :;=  ■■■■  * 

[Page  79.     Tut:  FirstTown  Meeting..] 

At  a  meeting  of  tile  freeholders  and    otlier 


inhabitants  of  the  town  of  Paris,  regularly 
assembled  at  the  dwelling  house  of  Mr.  Reu- 
ben Hubbard  of  said  town,  on  the-  [6th  day 
of  July  1703 — etc. 

Tythingmen  elected,  Jonathan  Hall,  Nath- 
aniel Haskell,  Wm.  Swan,  Benj.  Hammond 
and  Setli  Carpenter. 

The  town  declined  to  abate  the  taxes  of 
Dennis  Haskell  and  Mannasseb    Powers. 

(Page  313.) 
The  following  table  shows  at  a  glance  the 
extent  of  the  organized  temperance  reform 
in  Oxford  county,  in  [834.  Albany,  organ- 
ized 1831,  Asa  Ci'.mmiings,  President;  P. 
Haskell,  Secretary.  Ninety-one  numbers 
(in  the  table  there  are  twenty-six  other  or- 
ganizations.) 

(Page  355.) 
Paris  Lodge  No.  94.  By  consent  of  <  (xford 
Lodge,  and  on  the  petition  of  several  masons 
who  resided  in  Paris,  a  dispensation  was 
granted  in  [85S,  by  Grand  Master  Hiram 
Chase,  for  a  Masonic"  Lodge  at  South  Pan. 

A  charter  for  the  Lodge  was  issued  May 
5th,  1S59. 

In  i860  I,.  15.  Weeks  was  elected  master, 
and  Merrill  E.  Haskell,  secretary.  Twelve- 
persons  were  made  Masons  during   the    year. 

r86i.  Wm.  A.  Rust,  Master;  Merrill  ]•. 
Haskell,  Secretary.  Number  of  Masons 
made  during  the  year,  six. 

[862.  Wm.  A.  Rust  Master;  Merrill  K.  Has- 
kell, Secretary.  Number  of  Masons  made, 
twelve.  The  first  death  in-  the  Lodge  was 
that  of  Robert  Hall,  wdio  died   March  ir. 

1863.  Wm.  A.  Rust,  Master;  Mersill  I'. 
Haskell,  Secretary.  Number  of  Masonsmade, 
ten. 

(Page  465.) 
Abij ah  Hall  bought  the  lot  next  to  Den- 
nett's and  built  what  is  now  the  residence  of 
Mrs.  Haskell.  From  the  east  end  of  hi-  pur- 
chase he  gave  fhe  lot  on  which  the  Congre- 
gational meeting  house  now  stands 

I  Page  625.) 

Haskell.     Rzekiei.  Whitman  Haskell 

was  the  son  of  Peter  and  Lucy  (Pulsifor) 
Haskell  of  New  Gloucester,  born  July  3,  1831, 
married  April  5,  1855,  Harriet,  daughter  of 
Nathaniel  and  Ruth  Lufkin),  Rideout,  born 
in  New  Gloucester,  July  54,  1831,  settled  at 
South  Paris  village,   185S.     Children: 

Emma  Wh itman,  born  April  17,  1S60;  Ed- 
win Nelson,  born  fuly  2  ittie  Lufkin, 
b  rn  Dei  •  mber  23,  I864.  The  father  died 
uly  5.  1    71. 


Subscribers  are  requested  to  complete  this 
fragmentary  record  by  dates  and  names. 

VARIOUS    GENEALOGIES. 

Four  Generations  of  Various  Branches  of  the  Haskell 
Family 
The  following  tables  are  summaries  of  some 
of  the  thousand  blanks  in  possession  of  the 
editor,  collected  within  the  past  twenty  five 
years.  They  are  largely  defective  in  many 
particulars  and  cannot  l>e  corrected  save  by 
the  assistance  of  the  members  of  the  family 
whose  names  arc  therein  mentioned.  It  is 
hoped  that  every  person  will  scan  these  and 
the  enclosed  blank  published  with  the  ut- 
most attention,  and  endeavor  to  aid  us  in 
connecting  the  missing  links. 

(iKilflilog]  i>l    <  hnrU'i  II    HiisIm-11 

Joel  Haskeli  ,  mdfather.  i  No 

rei    i  ' 

Joiinathan,  his    grandfather,    married    P. 
A.  Arnold  of  Cape  Ann.  Mass.,  she   was  ho,,: 
January  [9,  1 761 ;  she  died  January    ■ 
he    was    horn    at    Duxbury,    Mass.,    1766;  he 
died  at  New  Gloucester,  Me.,  October  9,  1858. 

Charles  Cruris,  father;  his  children  were 
Charles  Henry;  George  W.;  Deborah  A.:  Al- 
fred  P.:  and   Fannie  S. 

Charles  H.,  married  Mary  E.  Reynolds 
of  Portland,  Me.,  who  was  born  March  4, 
[S25,  died  October  6,  1863;  lie  was  horn  at 
New  Gloucester  Me.,  May  12,  1S24;  married 
at  Portland,  May  to,  1849;  had  one  child, 
Charles  Oliver,  horn  Plymouth,  Mass., 
August  24,  1856. 

SAMUEL  Haskei.I.,  his  grandfather,  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  Macomber;  she  was  born 
October  14,  1737:  she  died  September  3,  1S25; 
he  was  horn  February  17,  1734;  he  died  at 
North  Brook  field,  Mass.,  November  [5,  [820; 
he  had  two  sons  and  five  daughters,  Paul, 
Silas,  Elizabeth,  Olive,  Ruth,  Mary  and  Re- 
becca; all  dead.  Deacon  William  I'.  II. is!. ell, 
only  son  living  of  Paul  Haskell.  Tost  Office 
address  North  Brookfield,  Mass. 

Silas  manied  S.uah  I'.ond,  who  was  horn 
Deeeinhei  y,  177;.  died  January  S,  1S5.  :  he 
was  horn  August  13,  177.-,  at  North  Brook- 
field,  Mass.;  married  at  North  Brookfield, 
Mass.,  April  n,  1799;  died  at  Perry  Lake  Co., 
Ohio,  May  [8,  rS^i;  had  nine  children,  seven 
sons  and  two  daughters,  Samuel,  Silas,  Fer- 
dinand, Hiram,  Eli  B.,  Lucy,  Chancy,  Sarah 
I',.,  and  Harrison.  Those  living  are  Silas, 
Viroqua,  Veinon  Co..  Wis.;Chancy,  Sturgeon 
Bay,  Door  Co.,  Wis.;  Ferdinand  and  Eli  B., 
Perry,  Pake  Co.,  ( )hio. 

El.l  1!.,  married  Elvira  Smith,  she  was  horn 
May  15,  1809;  he  was  horn  August  31,  1808, 
at  North  Brookfield,  Mass.; married  December 
29,  1833,  at  Perry  Pake  Co.,  Ohio.  Nine 
children,  six  sons  and  three   daughters,  Olitl- 

thus  A.,  Gardner  S.,  Olinthus    IP,  Sarah    A., 


Elizabeth  E  ,  I.ucy  P.,  Eli  P.,  Jr.,  Herbert  P., 
and  Samuel  A. — three  of  the  sons  living,  Eli 
B.  Ir.,  Herbert  I'.  and  Samuel  A— all  of  Per- 
1  v,  Lake  C  o.,  <  Ihio;  daughters  living  are  Mrs 
Sarah  A.  Selkeld,  Mr.S  Pucy  hi.  Manchester, 
Perry,  Lake  Co.,  Ohio. 

liencalog)  ■■!  <  hnrliM  s.  lliiHki-ll. 

Phomas  Haskell,  his  great-great-grand- 
father; he  died  at  Deer  Isie,  Me.;  had  two 
children,  Mark  and  Francis.  The  descend- 
ants of  Francis  Haskell  are  numerous  in  this 

place;    too  much  so  to  give  names  in  so  small 

M  VRK,  his  great-grandfather,  married  Abi- 
gail Bray,  she  was  born  July  1 .  :  7 7 _* ;  died  at 
Deei  [sle,  Me.,  July  12,  1813;  he  was  born  at 
Cape  Ann,  Mass.,  ('etcher  .•••,  1723;  died  at 
Deei  1  le,  Me.,  January  1,  1  s  10;  had  thirteen 
children,  nine  sons  and  four  daughters. 

Ignatius,  his  grandfather,  married  Mary 
Stickney;  she  was  horn  in  1752:  died  at  New- 
bury Port.  Mass.,  September  8,  1S27;  he  was 
horn  at  Newbury  Port,  Mass.,  October  15, 
175c  he  was  married  at  Newbury  Port,  Mass.; 
died  at  Deer  Isle.,  Me.,  November  2 
had  eight  children,  four  sons  and  four 
daughters. 

Solomon,  his  father,  married  Joanna  Car- 
mon:  she  was  horn  August  17114,  at  Deer  Isle; 
he  was  horn  January  6,  171)4,  at  Deer  Isle; 
manied  November  25,  1814,  at  Deer  Isle; 
died  at  Deer  Isle,  August  20,  [867;  had  nine 
children,  four  sons  and  five  daughters. 

Charles  S„  married  Martha  B.  Haskell: 
she  was  horn  at  Deer  Isle.  April  2,  1823;  he 
was  horn  at  Deer  Isle,  October  23,  is 2  :  ;  mar- 
ried at  Mechanic  halls,  Me.,  November  9, 
1857;  had  two  children,  one  son  and  one 
daughter:  name  of  son  Judson  Adams,  bom 
al   Deer  Isle,  November  17,  1S58. 


THE  ARMS. 

There  are  a  score  of  authorities  regarding 
the  Haskell  arms  and  from  time  to  time  these 
will  he  given  to  our   readers. 

Two  are  given  in  this  issue  that  may  he  of 
interest   as   follows: 

I-'ruin  "General  Aunnrv  -of  F.ngland,  Scotland  and 
78,  Loudon,  by  Sir  liernard  liurke,  Ulster 
King  of  Arms,  p.  465. 

Haskell, —  Vaire  ar  (another  or)  and  sa. 
Crest:  on  a  mount  an  apple  tree  fi  uited  ppr. 

I-'rom  the  "Ordinary  of  Armorials,"  byj.  W.  I'ap- 
worth,  London,  1H74,  under  title  ol  "vair  argent  et 
sable,"  page  [120 

Cusacke,  Farmer  Co.,  Leicestershire.  Dela- 
field  Sire  Robert  de  La  Warde,  temp,  lid- 
ward  I.  F.  G.  IP  J.  John  De  la  Warde  I. 
Austiuian  Priory  at  Fristoke,  or  Frithelstoke 
Co.,  Devon. — Ashmolean  MSS.  763. 

Sir  William  Haskell,  V.  Haskell,  Hassell. 
-    '     ■    vairy    or  and    sa.      Haskell     '  Y. 

Glovers  1  irdinary,  Cotton  M.  -s.  Tiberius  I). 
mi,   Harl  MSS.  1392  and 


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OUR  ANCESTOR'S    TRIALS. 

An  Interesting  Account    of    the  Royalton    Raid    by 
Savages  in  the  Last  Century. 

From  the  Historj  ok  Rastern    Vermont  from  its 
earliest  settlement  to  theclose  ol  the  eighteenth  ccn- 

I'v  lienjamin  II.  Hall.  New  York:  I).  Appleloii  it 
Co.,  .v|S  Broadway.    1S58. 

Considering  the  exposed  situation  of  the 
northern  frontier  of  Vermont,  it  had  long 
been  a  niatterofsurprise  and  congratulation 
that  the  British  and  [ndians  had  not  more 
frequently  improved  the  many  opportunities 
which  were  open  to  them  of  attacking  the 
settlers  ami  pillaging  their  fields  ami  dwell- 
ings. This  apparent  forbearance,  so  far 
from  arising  from  any  praiseworthy  motive, 
was  caused  by  the  many  difficulties  which 
the  enemy  knew  it  would  be  necessary  for 
them  to  encounter  in  reaching  the  settle- 
ments.  Hut  the  intervention  of  steep  mount- 
ains and  pathless  forests  did  not  afford  com- 
plete exemption  from  attack.  On  the  oth.  of 
August,  a  party  of  twenty-one  Indians 
visited  the  town  of  Barnard,  and  made  pris- 
oners of  Thomas  M.  Wright,  John  Newton, 
and  Prince  Haskell.  These  men  were  sub- 
sequently carried  to  Canada,  whence  the 
two  former  escaped  in  the  spring  following. 
The  latter  was  exchanged  after  being  for 
more  than  a  year  in  captivity.  While  pris- 
oners they  suffered  many  hardships,  which 
differed  only  in  kind  from  tho.se  they  en- 
dured during  their  return  journey.  David 
Stone  of  Bethel  was  also  captured  'at  the 
same  time  by  the  same  party.  When  the 
settlement  of  Bethel  was  begun  in  the  fall  of 

the  year,  a  small  stockade  fort  had  been 

built  by  the  inhabitants  of  the  town  for 
their  protection.  It  stood  at  the  lower  end  of 
the  west  village,  on  the  White  river,  and  its 
garrison,  which  had  been  removed  from 
Royalton,  was  commanded  by  Captain  Saf- 
tord.  On  the  occasion  of  this  incursion.it 
rendered  no  effectual  service  in  behalf  of  the 
inhabitants.  Immediately  after  the  attack, 
the  inhabitants  of  Barnard  called  a  town- 
meeting,  and  resolved  to  build  a  fort.  Ben- 
j  uuiti  Cox  was  chosen  captain  and  a  mes- 
sage was  sent  to  t  lie  Coventor  lor  a  commis- 
sion. As  soon  as  the  fact  of  the  inroad  was 
known,  several  companies  of  soldiers  from 
different  parts  of  the  state  set  out  for  Bar- 
nard, but  before  they  arrived  there,  the 
enemy  had  departed,  and  the  woik  of  de- 
fence was  almost  completed.  The  fort  was 
known  as  Fort  Defiance,  and  at  times  was 
occupied  by  a  garrison. 

But  the  sorest  trial  was  yet  to  come.  In 
July,  177'),  an  American  officer,  a  certain 
Lieut.  Whitcomb,  while  out  with  a  scouting 
party  on  the  .river  Sorel,  had  mortally 
wounded  C.en.  Oordcn,  a  British  officer,  as 
he  was     tiding    between     Chambly    and  .St. 


John,  and  had  taken  front  him  his  sword  and 
watch.  The  British  had  long  desired  to 
avenge  this  act,  which  they  regarded  as 
base  and  villanous,  resulting  wholly  from  a 
desire  of  plunder,  and  totally  unworthy  of 
an  officer.  lTo  capture  Whitcomb,  was  with 
them,  a  controling  motive.  Kxpccting,  it  is 
supposed,  that  they  should  find  him  at  New- 
bury on  Connecticut  river,  an  expedition 
was  planned  against  that  town,  of  the  two 
hundred  and  ten  men  who  were  engaged  in 
it,  all  were  Indians  with  the  exception  of 
seven  white  men  who  were  refugei  tnd 
tories.  In  the  beginning  of  October,  the 
party,  under  the  command  of  Horton,  a 
British  lieutenant,  and  one  I,e  Mott,  his 
assistant,  stalled  on  their  mission  of  plunder 
and  revenge.  Their  guide  whose  name  was 
Hamilton,  had  been  made  prisoner  by  the 
Americans  at  the  .surrender  of  Burgoyne, 
in  1777.  He  had  been  at  Newbury  and 
Royalton  during  the  preceding  summer,  on 
parole  of  honor;  and  having  left  the  latter 
place  with  several  others,  under  pretence  of 
going  to  survey  lands  in  the  northern  part 
of  Vermont,  had  gone  directly  to  the  enemy, 
to  whom,  no  doubt,  he  communicated  such 
information  as  served  to  assist  them  in  ex- 
ecuting their  barbarous  intentions.  While 
proceeding  up  Onion  or  Winooski  river, 
they  fell  in,  near  the  spot  wdtere  Montpelier 
now  stands,  with  two  white  men  engaged  in 
hunting,  who  informed  them  that  the  people 
of  Newbury  had  been  expecting  an  assult 
from  their  enemies  in  Canada,  and  were  well 
prepared  for  defense.  The  information, 
whether  true  or  false,  had  the  effect  to  divert 
them  from  the  primary  object  of  the  expedi- 
tion, and  to  turn  their  attention  towards 
Royalton. 

This  town  had  formerly  been  defended  by 
a  small  garrison,  but  unfortunately  the 
soldiers  had  a  little  while  before  been  re- 
moved seven  or  eight  miles  westward  to 
Capt.  Safford's  fort  in  the  town  of  Bethel, 
and  the  inhabitants  were  now  entirely  desti- 
tute of  the  means  of  defence.  On  reaching 
the  mouth  oi  Steven's  branch,  the  enemy 
passed  through  the  town  of  Bane  to  Jail 
branch,  which  empties  into  Steven's  branch; 
and,  after  proceeding  up  this  stream  for 
some  distance,  crossed  the  mountains  in 
Washington  and  Orange  counties,  and  strik- 
ing the  first  branch  of  White  river,  followed 
itdown  through  Chelsea,  and  encamped  at 
Tinibridge,  where  they  remained  during 
Sunday,  the  15th.  of  October,  engaged.no 
doubt,  in  maturing  their  plan  of  attack. 
Leaving  a  strong  ^uard  at  this  place,  they 
advanced  the  next  morning  before  daybreak 
towards  the  more  settled  parts  of  Tinibridge, 
and  commenced  depredations  at  the  house 
of  John  Hutchinson,  which  was  situated  in 
Tinibridge,  but  adjoined  the  line  of  Royalton. 
Having    made     Mr.       Hutchinson      and     his 


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brother  Abijah  prisoners,  they  plundered  the 
house,  crossed  the  first  branch  of  White 
river,  and  proceeded  to  the  dwelling  of 
Unhurt  Havens  in  Royalton,  which  was  not 
far  distant.  Mr.  Havens,  who  bad  gone  into 
his  pasture,  becoming  aware  ol  danger  from 
the  barking  of  dogs,  and  beholding  at  the 
same  time,  a  party  of  Indians  entering  his 
house,  lay  down  under  a  log  and  escaped 
their  notice.  Mis  son,  Daniel  Havens,  and 
another  young  man,  Thomas  Pcniber,  who 
were  in  the  house  when  the  enemy  ap- 
proached, endeavored  to  escape  by  flight. 
Havens  succeded  in    throwing  himself    ovei 

an  adjacent  hedge,  and  being  protected  by 
the  hushes,  crept  down  the  hank  of  the 
stream  and  concealed  himself  beneath  a  log, 
over  which  the  Indians  passed  a  lew  min- 
uets afterwards,  as  they  pursued  with  im- 
petuous haste  their  escaped  prey.  Coming 
up  with  Pember,  one  of  aimed  at  him  a 
spear,  which;  striking  him  inflicted  a  severe 
wound.  He  still  continued  running,  hut, 
becoming  faint  with  the  loss  of  blood,  was 
soon  overtaken,    killed,     and   scalped. 

Having  selected   Mr.    Havens'    house  as  a 
deposit    lor    their     baggage    and     a  post    of 
observation,  a  portion  of  the   party  were   left 
thereon  guard,  while  the  main  body  again  set 
forth  to  complete  the  work  of  destruction.  On 
their  way    they    overtook,     Klias  Button,    a 
young  man,  who  endeavored   to  avoid    them. 
But  the  Indians— licet  of  foot,  and  savage  by 
the  scent  of    blood — rendered     his     attempts 
useless,  and  his  body     was  left  by  the     roa  1- 
side  in   its    gore.     Advancing    silently    and 
with  great    caution,    they  next    entered  the 
dwelling  of    Joseph     Kneeland,    which  was 
about  a    half    mile     distant     from     Havens'. 
Here  they  made  prisoners    of  Kneeland    and 
his  aged     father,     also  of     Simeon     Belknap, 
Giles  Gibbs,  and    Jonathan     Brown.     Carry- 
ing devastation   in    their     train,     they  finally 
reached  the  mouth     of  White     river     branch, 
where  they   made  a   stand,     and     dispatched 
small    parties      in    different     directions     to 
plunder  the    dwellings    and    brinj;    in  pris- 
oners.    They  had    already  stolen    a  number 
of  horses,  and,  thinking    to  facilitate     opera- 
tions they  now    mounted  them,  and    cudcav 
ored  to    control    them  by  yells     and     shouts. 
The  horses,     unused     to     such    riders,     were 
rendered  more  and     more  unmanageable    by 
the  fren/ied  cries  of  the  Indians,  and     served 
essentially  to    impede  the  execution  of    their 
plans.     The  alarm  had  now  become   general 
and  the    frightened    inhabitants,    flying   in 
every  direction,  sought  such  places  as    might 
afford  a  refuge    from   the    barbarity  of   their 
pursuers.      As   a    detachment    of   the    enemy 
were  passing  down  the  west   bald;  of    White- 
river,  they  were  perceived  by  one  of  the  in- 
habitants,   who    immediately    gave    notice  of 
their  approach  to  Gen.   Klias    Stevens,  who 
was  working  in    a  Held  about    two    miles  dis- 


tant   from    his  house.     Unyoking    his  oxen, 
he  turned  them  out,  and  mounting    his  horse 
Started  up  the  river,      lie  had    gone    about  a 
mile  m  the  direction   of  his     dwelling,    when 
he  was  met  by  Capt.    John      Parkhurst,     who 
informed  him  that  the     Indians  were     in  hill 
pursuit    down  the    river,  and  counselled    him 
to  turn  back.     Fearing  for  tin;  safety   of  his 
wife  and   children,  yet    aware   of     the  immin- 
ent   danger       which      threatened       himself, 
Stevens   changed    his    course,  and    reti  iced 
his  steps,  in  company    with    Parkhurst.     On 
reaching  the  house  of    Deacon    Daniel     Rix, 
Stevens    took     Mrs.  Rix     and     two  or    three 
children  with    him  on     his  horse;     Parkhurst 
performed  the   same    kind  of  office    foi  Mrs. 
Benton  and  a  number  of  children,  and,    with 
all  the  care   and     attention   of  which  the    oc- 
casion allowed,  the  party  rode  oil  to  the  Held 
wdiere  Stevens,  had  first  received  the    alarm, 
being  followed    by    Deacon  Rix  and    several 
other    persons    on    font,     (in     reaching  this 
spot,  the  women     and  children  were     left  in 
charge  of  a  Mr.    Burroughs,    while  Steven--, 
full  of  concern  for  his    family,  again    set  out 
for  his     home.      He     had     gone  about     hall  a 
mile    when    he    discerned  the  Indians    ap- 
proaching.     As     they     were  but     a  few  rods 
distant,  he  instantly  turned   about,  and    com- 
ing up     with     the  company     he  had  left,  en- 
treated them   to  take  to  the  woods;    immedi- 
ately following   his     advice     they  were    soon 
concealed  in  the   neighboring    thicket  where 
they     remained     undiscovered     by     the    foe. 
Passing  down    the   road   a  half  mile    further. 
Stevens  came    in     si^ht  of    the  house    of  his 
father  in-law,     Tilly      Parkhurst.       Here    he 
found  his  sister  engaged  in  milking,  and    en- 
tirely unconscious    of  the    approach     of  the 
foe.     Telling  her  to  'leave    her  cow  immedi- 
ately or  the     Indians    would   have    her,"  he 
left  her  to  secure     her  own     retreat.      By  the 
time  he   had    gained  the   house,    the    Indians 
were  not     more     than    eighty  or  a      hundred 
rods  in  the  rear.      Fear  had   so    taken  posses- 
sion of   the    half-crazed     inhabitants     that  it 
was  impossible  to    persuade  or  compel    them 
to  take  refuge    in  the    woods.     Choosing  the 
road,  they    kept     it  as  well     as  their    terrible 
fright    and     exhaustion     would     allow    until 
they  reached     the   house    of  Capt.  I-',.     Park- 
hurst  in     Sharon.      Here     they     halted  for  a 
few  moments,  but    their  pursuers    appearing 
in  si<;ht,  they  were  compelled    again  to  push 
forward  in    order     to  escape  impending     dis- 
trUCtion.      The  few  horses  which  the  terrified 
inhabitants  had  succeeded  in  securing,  could 
not  carry  but     a  small   portion     of  those  who 
had  now  assembled,  and  there     was  but  little 
time  for  consultation  or  suggestion. 
his  mother  and     sister    upon  his  own    horse, 
and  Mrs.  Rix  and    her  three     children     upon 
another,  Stevens  bade  them     ride  on  with  all 
possible  speed,   while     he  should   follow     with 
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TABLE    OF   CONTENTS 

Biography  ot  R.  R.  Haskell, 
Genealogy  of  S.  P.  Haskell, 
Biography  of  John  Leland?  Haskell, 
Editorials,      -  -  -  .  - 

Aunt  Hitty  Haskell, 
Our  Ancestors'  Trials, 
Genealogy  (William  Haskell), 
Genealogy  of  G.  R.  Haskell 
Personal  Narrative.     E.  W.  H., 
Genealogy  of  P.  F.  Haskell, 
Ge.nealogy  of  John  Leland  Haskell, 
Miscellaneous,  ... 

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REUBEN  R.   HASKELL. 

Thomas  Haskell,  son  of  Mark  and  Ruthie 
Haskell  of  Marblehead,  Mass.,  was  married 
to  Mary  Phillips,  daughtei  of  Joshua  and 
Grace  Prentiss,  upon  the  -'ist  day  of  Febru- 
ary, 1 791 1.  Among  their  children  was  Thomas 
Coombs,  horn  June  2,  1800;  died  September 
5,  [866.  He  married  Mirriam  F.  Pitman,  and 
among  their  nine  children  was  Reuben  Rob- 


ertslHaskell,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  horn 
on  the  1  Jth  of  March,  1840,  who  is  one  of  the 
Board  of  Publication  of  the  Haskei.l  Jovr- 
n.\i.,  and  whose  portrait  appears  above.  He 
is  a  member  of  one  of  the  leading  linns  of 
of  diamond  jeweler-  in  San  Francisco  and 
has  been  known  to  the  Pacific  Coast  trade 
for  twenty  years. 

Like  a  lar;<e  proportion  of  the  family  he  is 
of   more    than    average    height,     lie  is  well 


ASK! 


built,  lithe  and  active  and  lull  of  physical 
energy.  He  was  born  in  Swampscott,  Mass  , 
his  father  being  a  sea  captain.     He  received 

his  education  in  Marblehead,  Mass.,  and  be- 
gan his  life  work  in  Salem  in  connection  with 
the  dry  goods  trade.  Here  he  married  Mar- 
garet S.  Preston,  daughter  of  John  Preston, 
one  of  Salem's  must  esteemed  citizens,  but  in 
1863  removed  to  New  York,  there  to  take 
a  position  in  the  uptown  house,  in  the 
silk  department,  of  the  celebrated  firm  of  A. 
T.  Stewart  \-  Co.  Here  he  remained  for  up- 
wards of  two  years,  when  lie  accepted  an 
advantageous  offer  in  the  wholesale  woolen 
and  cloak  trade  and  traveled  as  commercial 
man  through  the  Western  States  for  two 
years  more.  Upon  the  termination  of  this 
engagement,  he  was  induced  to  enter  the 
newspaper  business.  In  connection  with  C. 
H.  Sweetzer  he  conducted  the  New  York 
Evening  Mail.  While  lie  wrote  considerably 
for  the  paper  his  principal  charge  was  the 
business  end  of  it,  and  although  this  was  an 
entirely  new  undertaking  to  him,  he  soon 
built  up  a  line  advertising  trade,  and  its  dis- 
play columns  were  Tilled  with  paying  ads. 
He  was  ubiquitous  in  his  work.  No  oppor- 
tunity he  let  escape,  anil  as  a  consequence 
the  paper  soon  had  a  good  income  and  was 
on  a  successful  footing.  While  so  engaged 
he  attracted  the  attention  of  the  Gorham 
Manufacturing  Company  people.  Always 
upon  the  lookout  for  able,  intelligent  men, 
they  made  him  a  flattering  offer  to  enter  their 
service,  and  this  he  accepted. 

For  two  years  he  was  in  the  New  York 
office  and  for  ten  years  after  that  he  traveled 
all  over  the   United   States  in   their  interest. 

In  New  York  he  joined  Howard  Lodge, 
F.  &  A.  M.  This  was  in  1867.  Out  here  in 
Sau  Francisco  he  has  not  had  the  time  to  at- 
tend to  any  orders  or  societies,  however,  but 
he  still  remains  affiliated  with  his  home 
lodge. 

In  [879  when  Mr.  Haskell  came  to  Califor- 
nia, he  had  acquired  a  broad  experience, 
his  judgment  was  sound  and  practical,  and 
he  believed  that  he  could  do  well  upon  his 
own  account  here  in  S.m  Francisco.  He  be- 
lieved, and  justly,  that  lie  was  able  to  make 
a  business  that  would  pay,  and  opened  a 
manufacturing  jewelry  establishment  here. 
His  anticipations  have  been  more  than  real- 
ized, and  the  house  today  is  oik-  of  the  most 
prosperous  upon  the  coast.  Mr.  Muegge  who 
became  his  partner  in  1881  was  brought  out 
to  California  by  Mr.  Haskell.  He  had  been 
engaged  as  a  clerk  in  New  York,  and  after- 
wards was  with  Mr.  Haskell  her;  until  he 
became  associated  with  the  linn. 

When  Mr.  Haskell  began  it  was  with  the 
agency  for  the  following  leading  New  York 
houses:Enos, Richardson  &  Co.,  ]■'..  ha  Rich  arils 
&  Co.,  and  \Vood&  Hughes.  These  he  has  re- 
tained down  all  the  years,  and  since    then  he 


Uae 


rency  for  other  jewelry 
:s,  also  representatve  in 
not  alone   in  this  country, 


Mr.  Haskell  is  a  man  of  the  world  in  the 
best  meaning  of  tin-  term,  lie  has  a  broad 
and  varied  experience  and  is  familiar  with 
nearly  every  section  of  the  Union.  For  many 
years  before  coming  to  California  he  was 
prominent  in  commercial  life,  as  stated,  and 
was  engaged  for  different  periods  in  other 
branches  of  trade  as  well  as  in  jewelry.  He 
gained  a  practical  experience  indeed  in  sev- 
eral radicall)  distinct  businesses  so  that  we 
have  very  lew  so  thoroughly  informed  in 
business  affairs  generally  as  he  is.  Well  ed- 
ucated, a  man  of  liberal  ideas,  devoted  to 
home  life,  thoroughly  Californian,  and  taking 
an  active  interest  upon  the  best  side  of  poli- 
tical life,  lie  is  a  credit  to  the  family  and 
the  name. 

It  is  largely  due  to  the  energy,  the  ability 
and  push  of  Mr.  Reuben  R.  Haskell  that  the 
existence  of  this  Journal  is  due.  When  the 
days  were  dark  and  the  rest  of  us  doubted 
the  success  of  the  enterprise  it  was  Reuben 
R.  Haskell's  vim  and  insistence  that  made  the 
publication  of  the  litst  number  a  surety  and 
success.  His  taste  and  good  judgment, 
drawn  from  his  experience  of  the  New  York 
Mail  induced  the  rest  of  the  Board  to  put  the 
JOURNAL  into  the  artistic  shape  in  which  it 
now  appears. 

This  tentative  effort  to  merely  outline  his 
active,  laborious,  prudent  and  enterprising 
life,  is  a  study  which  does  not  really  do  jus- 
tice to  the  man.  But  Mr.  Haskell  has  been 
so  modest  that  all  that  the  biographer  could 
obtain  was  simply  the  bare  facts  of  his  life. 
M.  Y.  0. 


(,!-Nl-.\]ni;V  nr  SAM  IT:  I    l'HII.IIl'S   I1AS1TI  I 


THOMAS  11ASKKI.I.,  his  ureat-grandfather, 
married  Anna  .Uwood;  I1.1T  live  children,  Thomas, 
Solomon,  I'.enjamin,  William  ami    |ohn. 

IiKNJAMIN,  his  grandfather,  married  l.vdia  Free 
111  111;  111  irri     I  at  Host  Talmout'h  ;  had  ten 

■ 
i;..ni,  Hannah,  Sarah,  I'arsons  mid  I'nllv. 

L'ARSONS,  his  father,  married  II  innah  Unit;  she 
was  horn  |ulv  17,  17S1;  died    December    25,  1S56;  h<' 

was  1 1  at  I-.i1iik.hiIi    (I.  Lobel   27,     [777; 

Albany,  Octohei  VII   my  fill)  6,  1S29; 

had  nine  children,  Parsons,  Hannah,  friah  II.,  S  mi- 
ni II'.  n  n-iil  11.,  Sarah  A  .  Lvdia  I'..  Marv  Ann  and 
Hannah. 

IsAMI'l'I.    1'IItl.l.lI'S,  married   Irene    Cuinmillgs; 

rn  August  20,    iSy;  she  died  December  S, 

in  Albam   fune  '•.  1S0S;  married   al 

Vlbain    December.!,  1S62;  had  two  children    Stepben 

1\  ami  Nano   1  . 


Mr.  Willabe  Haskell,  one  of  our  people,  is 
the  librarian  of  the  Yale  University  Reading 
100m,  New   Haven,   Conn.,    and    is    quite    an 

authority  upon  genealogical  matters. 


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JOHN   LELAND   1 1  ASK  ELI. 


The  portrait  found  above  is  the-  portrait  of 
John  I, eland  Haskell ofSan  Francisco, formerly 
one  of  the  most  extensive  contractors  and 
builders  of  the  city  who  accumulated  a  for- 
tune in  his  business,  who  is  now  retired  and 
who  resides  at  number  2219  Van  Ness  Ave- 
nue, in  this  city. 

Mr.  Haskell  has  been  noted  during  his 
residence  at  his  present  home  as  an  enter- 
tainer par  excellence,  and  this  was  e: 
so  during  the  time  that  his  deceased  wife  was 
the  hostess.  Their  musical,  artistic  and  social 
entertainments  were  pronounced  the  finest 
and  most  enjoyable  that  their  many  friends 
had  the  privilege  of  attending.  Their 
daughter,  Blanche,  was  noted  foi  her  musical 
ability,  and  for  the  artistic  fervor  of  her 
recitals. 

Mr.  John  1. eland  Haskell's  father  was  a 
distinguished  and    honorable    citizen    of   his 


;D  haskf.l. 

birthplace.  His  word  was  his  bond  audit 
was  never  stained.  During  his  life  of  seven- 
ty-six years,  he  was  the  superintendent  of 
the  Sal. bath  school  of  the  First  Congrega- 
tional church  of  Peru,  Mass.,  for  many  years. 
In  the  absence  of  the  pastor,  at  a  regular 
service,  he  would  take  Ins  place,  reading  a 
sermon,  selected  from  some  able  writer.  On 
the  death  nf  Smith  Phillips,  who  had  been 
deacon  in  the  church  for  forty  years,  Mr. 
Haskell's  father  Kbenezer  was  elected  to 
that  oflke  and  held  it  for  near  thirty  years, 
and  until  he  moved  to  an  adjoining  town, 
Hinsdale.  His  grandfather,  Phillips,  was 
the  Rothschild  of  his  native  town,  ready  at 
all  times  to  loan  any  amount  of  money  re- 
quired on  -ood  indorsed  notes,  or  other 
security.  His  mother  Lydia  was  the  pride 
of  the  village,  and  the  best  mother  that  ever 
raised  a  family  or  presided  over  a  house,  to 
say  nothing  of  her  capacity  for  entertaining 
friends  and  supplying  them   with    the    good 


THE   II  ASK  HU.  JOURNAL 


things  that  keep  body  and  soul  together,  a 
true  Christian,  always  in  her  place  at  church, 
Sal. Lath  school  and  societies  connected    with 

church  work.  She  lived  and  died  one  of 
Cud's  Hue  children. 

Mi.  John  I. eland  Haskell  the  subject  of  this 
sketch  was  horn  in  Peru,  Mass.,  January  12, 
1827.  He  came  of  the  good  old  Massachus 
etts  stock,  and  is  today  although  seventy 
years  of  age  a  typical  representative  of  the 
family,  youthful  in  figure,  with  sparkling 
exes  and  a  bright  and  expressive  face.  His 
manners  are  particularly  those  of  Hie  old 
school;  courteous,  low-voiced,  and  yet  enthus- 
iastic when  upon  subjects  of  interest. 

For  the  tirst  seventeen  years  of  his  life  he 
luckily  lived  upon  a  farm  and  the  training 
that  he  here  received  has  been  of  valuable 
use  to  him  in  alter  years.  At  the  age  of 
seventeen  he  went  into  the  country  store 
and  laid  the  foundation  for  his  business  edu- 
cation, staying  in  that  particular  place  two 
years,  lie  then  removed  to  New  Bedford, 
Mass..  where  his  training  secured  him  a  bet- 
ter position  in  that  town,  but  in  the  same 
line  of  business.  William  Bradford,  the  well- 
known  merchant,  then  employed  him  as  a 
traveling  salesman  for  about  two  years  longer, 
in  which  employment  he  gave  such  satisfac- 
tion that  he  was  thereafter  employed  at 
Boston  in  one  of  the  largest  firms  in  Mas- 
sachusetts. Meanwhile,  however,  he  had 
managed  stores  at  Natucket,  Kdgerton,  Taun- 
ton, and  Lynn,  Mass. 

In  Boston  he  was  engaged  by  the  cele- 
brated firmof  George  W.  Warren  &  Co.,  which 
is  now  Jordan  Marsh  ci  Co.  He  remained 
there  until  he  came  to  California.  He  arrived 
in  San  Francisco  on  the  26th  day  of  July, 
1850,  thus  being  one  of  the  earliest  of  our 
pioneers,  having  come  by  the  way  of  the 
Isthmus  of  Panama,  arriving  there  at  a  time 
when  there  was  a  congestion  of  traffic  and 
being  one  of  those  adventurous  spirits  who 
refused  to  wait  for  the  regular  steamers,  but 
took  a  sailing  vessel  instead.  Of  course  he 
first  visited  the  mines,  but  after  a  short  ex- 
perience w  hich  included  a  residence  in  Sacra- 
mento during  the  terrible  cholera  lime  where 
the  dead  were  carried  out  by  hundreds,  he 
returned  to  San  Francisco  and  began  his 
successful  work  as  a  contractor  and    builder. 

He  married  his  first  wife  in  San  Francisco 
in  1851;  she  died  in  1S7S.  Scores  of  the  best 
buildings  in  San  Francisco  have  been  con- 
structed by  him,  and  hardly  an  old  resident 
of  the  city  but  knows  him  either  personally 
or  by  reputation. 

His  second  marriage  was  in  1884  to  Mrs. 
Virginia  B.  Monahan,  a  widow  with  two 
children,  William  and  Blanche.  Blam  hcdicd 
in  1894,  and  William  still  lives  with  him. 

Mis.  Virginia  B.  Haskell  was  a  remarkably 
accomplished  woman;  a  painter,  a  designer, 
and  an  artist.     Mr.   Haskell's  home    on    Van 


Ness  Avenue  is  filled  with  the  evidences  o' 
her  ability,  and  his  only  grief  is  her  unfor- 
tunate death  not  a  year  ago.  A  landscape 
of  Mount  I  loud  painted  by  her  was  taken  by 
me,  through  an  excusable  mistake  for  one  of 
Bierstadt's,  and  her  painting  of  figures  and 
of  still  life,  is  remarkably  able. 

Tin;  grandson  of  Mr.  Haskell  and  the  joy 
of  his  hie  and  the  sunshine  of  his  home,  is 
little  Blanchard.  Son  of  his  stepdaughter, 
Blanche,  born  Sept.  24,  1894.  A  little  fellow 
who  just  now  wears  pants  upon  holidays  only, 
and  who  plays  billiards  with  hisgrandpa  inthe 
billiard  room  and  generally  beats  the  old  man. 

When  1  was  out  there  one  evening  he  was 
introduced  to  me,  and  he  sized  me  up  and 
then  he  came  to  me  with  the  air  of  a  cavalier 
of  Prince  Charles  time  and  said,  "I  am  glad 
to  see  another  Haskell." 

Mr.  John  L.  Haskell's  father's  christian 
name  was  Ebenezer.  He  was  bom  in  1704- 
His  grandfather's  name  was  Roger  Haskell, 
born  either  in  Dorchester  or  Salem,  Mass. 
Mr.  Haskell  has  one  surviving  sister,  Mrs. 
Sophronia  Combs  of  Chester,  Mas., 

His  grandfather  died  at  the  advanced  age 
of  ninety-eight  years  in  Peru,  Mass.,  and  it 
seems  to  me  alter  looking  overthe  genealogy 
of  thousands  of  Haskells  that  we  have  a  very 
happy  habit  of  living  far  beyond  the  Biblical 
age.  I  know  that  the  old  saw  is  that  the 
good  die  young  but  we  are  a  family  where 
the  exception  proves  the   rule. 

The  mother  of  Mr.  Haskell  was  a  Phillips, 
daughter  of  Smith  Phillips  who  died  in  1S41 
at  eighty-six  years  of  age.  More  than  one 
of  the  Haskells  have  married  into  the  Phil- 
lips family.  That  is  what  make  the  Phillips 
family  look  so  proud. 

In  a  previous  connection  of  Mr.  Haskell's 
family  they  had  alliances  with  the  1. elands, 
who  were  uncles  of  Lydia  Phillips  of 
Amhurst.  Mass.,  among  whom  are  two  pro- 
fessors of  Amhurst  College,  and  especially 
the  celebrated  Rev.  John  1. eland,  (after  whom 
Mr.  Haskell  was  named  and  who  lived  in 
Charleston,  South  Carolina,  for  many  years 
and  was  a  settled  pastor  of  the  First  Congre- 
gational church  of  that  city  for  twenty  or 
thirty  years,  afterward  moving  to  Savannah, 
where  he  died  in  the  seventies),  from  whom, 
or  his  or  their  descendants  the  editor  of  this 
JOURNAL  would  esteem  it  a  favor  to  hear  in 
connection  with  this  article,  and  in  elucida- 
tion of  the  ancient  history  of    this  branch. 

Mr.  Haskell  has  been  for  years  a  man  of 
affairs  and  devoted  entirely  to  his  business. 
Coming  to  California  as  early  as  he  did  he- 
brought  with  him  none  of  the  family  records; 
and  the  editor  ol  this  JOURNAL  would  esteem 
it  a  special  favor  to  be  assisted  by  any  cor- 
respondent with  any  facts  concerning  births, 
deaths,  dates  or  any  other  information  con- 
cerning the  earlier  history  of  Mr.  John  l.i  - 
land    Haskell's  branch. 


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BOARD  OF  PUBLICATION 
John  Leland  Haskell.  President,  22i9  Van  Ness  Ave 
D.  H.  Haskell,  20  Sansome  St.,  Cal.  Woolen  Mills, 
R.  R.  Haskell,    115  Kearney  St.,     Diamond  Merchant. 
B.C.  Haskell,    1346  Market  St.,  Attorney. 

FEBRUARY:  [SoS. 

The  delay  in  the  issuance  of  this  issue- 
is  largely  due  to  complications  with  the  Post 
Office  department. 


OUR  NEW   MEMBER. 

The  readers  of  the  Haske i.i.  Journal  will 
notice  in  this  second  (issue  the-addition  of  a 
fourth  name  to  its  Board  of  Publication.  It 
is  with  some  considerable  gratification  that 
we  editorially  announce  that  John  L.  Has- 
kell, one  of  the  earliest  and  most  successful 
of  California  pioneers  has  come  in  with  tis  to 
insure  the  success  of  this  enterprise. 

His  portrait  and  biography  will  be  found 
upon  another  page. 

GRANDMOTHER  SOUP, 
While  T  am  not  given  at  all  to  preaching, 
although  I  was  six  months  at  Oberliu  College 
studying  for  ministry,  (then  dropped  tor 
itu  vcu -nee ).  vet  in  my  I'm tv  one  years  of 
life  I  have  ill  lived  at  :i  number  ol  conclusions. 
Ail  ommvcious  leader  of  novels,  two  partic- 
ular books  have  struck  my  fancy  and  have- 
set  a  moral,  drawn  from  romance,  that  my 
life  has  verified.  These  hooks  are  'The 
Three  Guardsmen"  by  Duma'-,  and  "The 
Duchess  of  Langeais"  of  Balzac.  Both  of 
them  enforce  that  divine  truth  in  nature 
which  is  so  finely  exemplified  in  Swinburne's 
poem,  "A  Song  in  Time  of  Order,"  where  he 
says  that  when  three  men  hold  together 
tyrrany  and  the  kingdoms  are  less  by  three. 
Now  this  is  rather  discursive  for  an  editor- 
ial, but  I  mention  all  my  provocatives  to 
thought  because  I  know  that  the  Haskell 
crowd  can  appreciate  them. 


It  is  true,  as  sod  by  Balzac,  that  if  but 
three  men  would  stand  together  they  could 
run  the  whole  of  France.  It  is  a  thousand- 
fold truer  that  if  the  five  or  tell  thousand 
ll.i-.kcIN  in  the  United  States  would  stand 
together,  would  fight  together,  would  work 
together,  one  tor  all  ami  all  for  one,  that  be- 
fore very  long  your  son  might  be  President 
of  the  United  States  and  my  sou  (when  he 
grows  up),  might  be  usher  to  the  private  sec- 
retai  \  ol  the  consul  at  Samo  i. 

Truly,  it  seems  to  me  that  it  is  the  bounden 
duty  ol  every  person  of  the  Haskell  name 
and  blood  in  this  broad,  splendid  Republic 
that  stretches  from  ocean  to  ocean,  from  the 
Arctic  almost  to  the  lujuator,— that  it  is  his 
bounden  duty  to  patronize  his  own  race,  his 
own  blood  and  his  own  tribe.  Why,  three 
thousand  years  ago  even  when  our  ancestor-, 
set  out  from  the  plains  of  Central  Asia  on 
their  Northern  exodus,  when  grub  was  short 
and  their  stomachs  were  empty  they  did  not 
go  outside  their  own  family,  their  own  family 
went    inside —but    (when    they    were    hungry 

procession;     grandmother     soup     was     then 
weekly  bill  of  tare. 

Now  I  don't  mean  to  say  that  Haskell's 
Wheat  flakes  taste  like  our  ancient  ances- 
tors, but  nevertheless  the    flakes   are   pretty 


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JOURNAL 


TWO  GREAT    NOVELS. 

In  another  portion  of  this  paper  reference 
has  been  made  to  two  of  the  most  celebrated 
novels  written  in  this  century.  Every  one 
iif  oui  readers  has  probably  perused  the  books; 
but  they  should  be  read  again;  and  there  is 
an  underlying  lesson  in  each,  outside  of  the 
swing,  the  swirl,  the  magnificient  rush,  and 
the  splendid  adventures  of  their  respective 
!u  roes. 

The  French  colonel  who  engaged  in  his 
behalf  the  old  soldiers  of  Napoleon,  and  with 
tln.ni  stormed  the  Island  Convent,  where  the 
lovely  Duchess  de  Langeais  was  imprisoned, 
was  of  the  same  type,  enforced  the  same  les- 
sons of  constancy,  loyalty,  friendship  and 
unity  that  D'Artagnan  did  when  he  took  the 
three  musketeers  into  the  Bastion  of  St  Ger- 
vais  at  the  siege  ol  I. a  Rochelle,  and  ate  his 
pie  while  the  muskets  prophet. 

There  is  a  profound,  nay,  almost  a  solemn 
lesson  to  be  learned  from  these  two  hooks, 
and  that  is  this,  —  as  I  have  said  before  and 
Swinburne  lias  it,  —  that  if  but  three  men 
stand  together  the  kingdoms  are  less  by  three. 

How  absurd  it  is  to  think  of  it,  that  when 
there  are  of  us  in  this  laud,  new  bom  to 
modern  history  and  yet  piegnant  with  every 
possibility  of  success,  of  >;lor>-,  of  beauty,  of 
joy  and  of  delight,— how  absurd  it  is  to  think 
that  there  should  be  of  one  tribe  (who,  bless 
their  souls,  look  alike,  think  alike,  and  have 
not  populated  our  jails,)  -how  absurb  it  is,  1 
say,  to  think  that  live  thousand  of  this  crowd 
cannot  STAND  TOGETHER  and  work  and  light 
for  cath  other! 

Don't  you  think  so   yourself. 

Well  then:  if  you  think  as  I  do  let  us  stand 
together. 

COMMON      SENSE. 

I  do  not  know  that  outside  the-  question  of 
persistence  of  habit  there  is  in  nature,  any 
law  of  evolution  more  certain  than  that  of 
tribalgregariousness.  I  hope  the  crowd  will 
not  faint  when  they  read  this  word,  and  so  I 
will  explain.  I  eat  mush  for  breakfast  and  it 
costs  me  money  and  sometimes  gives  me  indi- 
gestion, but  since  1  have  known  o(  the  Has- 
kell wheat  Hakes  [support  whatever  indiges 
tion  tomes  with  an  equanimity  and  a  pride 
of  family  that  Roget  de  lleiskell  might  have 
envied  on  the  battle  held  of   Hastings. 

There  is  one  of  our  i  iaskells  that  furnishes 
lothes. 

Lives  there  a  Haskell  with  a  soul  so  dead 
That  never  to  himself  hath  said 

shall  be  clothed  from  foot  to  head 
In  Haskell  clothes— or  hare  instead? 

There  is  an  attorney  in  Beverly,  Massachu- 
setts. His  name  is  I'lysses  (',.  (('.rant  was 
named  alter  him.)  Whoever  desires  to  col- 
lect a  bill  (from  fellows  whoarenot  Haskells) 
ill  the  old  mother  state  might  do  well  to  con- 
sult him. 


There  is  a  fellow  ill  Kansas  who  can  draw 
you  plans  tor  a  Haskell  castle  like  old  Rowl- 
stone  on  Escley  Brook.  It  is  true  that  his 
brother  was  a  Congressman,  but  to  the  best 
of  our  knowledge  the  architect  has  never 
yet  i  tin  i'n  "Hi,  i  .   mi, I  his  brother  is  dead. 

And  if  any  one  of  you  think  of  getting  a 
wife,  the  California  woolen  mills  ..mi  givi 
M,u  a  blanket  which  is  equally  as  warm  and 
never  talks  back.  You  can  put  diamonds  on 
ii.  too,  it  vou  buy  them  of  a  Haskell;  ami 
then  you  can  get  them  back  when  you  get  a 
divorce  from  the  blanket. 

But  seriously,  there  seems  to  be  no  possi- 
bility ascertainable  to  common  sense  which 
would  negative  the  proposition  that  five 
thousand  of  us  here  should  not  be  able  by 
standing  together,  lighting  together,  (and  es- 
pecially by  together  putting  up  two  dollars 
apiece  for  the   Haskell  Journal,)  making 

ourselves  felt  in  the    Republic   that    we    have 
done  so  much  to  build. 

The  trouble  with  our  crowd  is  this:  we  are 
too  modest.      1  am  the  most  modest    man    vou 


THE"     JOURNAL'S"     PERSONAL. 

The   expense  of    publishing    the  HASKELL 

JOI  RN  VI.  amounts  to  about  live  hundred  di.l 
lars  per  month.  This  expense  for  a  limited 
time  has  been  guaranteed  by  the  Board  ol 
Publication,  but  it  cannot  be  kept  up  indefi- 
nitely unless  every  Haskell  in  the  United 
States  responds  with  his  small  proportion, 
our  subscription  price,  two  dollars  hive 
thousand  copies  of  the  Journal  are  being 
published  and  are  sent  to  the  various  names 
who  have  already,  directly  or  indirei  tly,  sig- 
nified their  desire  for  the  publication,  hrom 
the  additional  names  received  in  the  past 
twenty  days  we  are  of  the  opinion  that  the 
next  edition  will  require  two  or  three  thous- 
and additional  copies. 

This  number  is  sent  to  all  whose  names  we 
have,  whether  they  have  subscribed  and 
paid  their  money  or  not:  but  this  drain  upon 
our  resources  cannot  longer  continue. 

Vou  will  find  annexed  and  bound  in  as  a 
supplement  to  this  issue,  and  as  a  portion  of 
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pany the  same  with  a  post  office    order,  mak- 

h'i ant  isco. 

It  lakes  money  to  print  genealogies  ami  if 
we  do  the  work  you  ought  to  share   the  cost. 

There  will  be  no  new  editions  of  back 
numbers  printed;  the  expense  is  too  great. 

And  the  price  of  back  numbers  of  the 
Jouknal,  on  account  of  the  present 
is  now  raised  to  fifty  cents  per  copy,  with 
this  exception  only:  that  subscriptions  re- 
ceived before  the  March  issue  can  probably 
be  tilled  without  extra   charge. 


TIIK    IIASKULL   KH'RXAL 


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AUNT    HITTY   HASKELL. 

The  more  that  I  contrast  the  history  of  the 
plain,  simple,  common  people  that  comprise 
the  Haskell  family,  and  their  quiet  devotion 
to  principle,  the  more  1  am  glad  to  bear  our 
name.  Of  course,  when  1  remember  that  the 
first  of  our  name,  of  whom  we  have  historical 
proof,  killed  an  abbot  at  the  altar  1  remember 
the  adage  that  every  family  has  a  skeleton 
in  in  closet.  But  since  that  was  done  in  the 
year  S75,  or  thereabouts,  probably  the  skel- 
eton is  now  dust.  I  admire  extremely  the 
brave  but  idotic  action  of  Roget  de  Haskell 
in  rushing  through  a  storm  of  arrows  to  an 
apple  tree  upon  a  mountain  to  get  for  Wil- 
liam the  Conqueror  what  afterwards  he- 
came  a  New  Kngland  pippin.  I  thought  it  a 
splendid  proposition  when  an  archbishop 
bearded  a  king  and  demanded  the  right  to 
Continue  to  take  a  tenth  of  his  peoples'  pro- 
duce for  the  sake  of  the  Lord.  1  have  no  ob- 
jection to  Surrey  Haskell  fighting  for  Prince 
Charlie,  and  1  have  a  sincere  admiration  for 
William,  Mark  and  Roger,  who  came  over  in 
a  leaky  ship  to  Massachusetts  for  the  purpose 
of  seeing  witches  burned  at  the  stake  in  that 
locality. 

But  there  is  one  thing  that  I  am  proud  of, 
and  that  every  Haskell  in  America  ought  to 
teach  to  his  children,  and  that  is  the  magnifi- 
cent and  splendid  address  of  Wendell  Phillips, 
(that  John  the  Baptist  of  the  freedom  of 
humanity,  that  herald  of  Christ  and  the 
Millennium,)  that  address  and  requiem  that 
he  delivered  over  the  body  of  Aunt  llitly 
Haskell  in  October,  [878. 

George  Washington,  according  to  "Spark's 
Life  and  Letters,"  complimented  Prince  Has- 
kell more  than  once  for  his  distinguished 
services  foi  our  political  independence,  but 
this  thing  of  Wendell  Phillips  upon  Aunt 
Hitty  Haskell,  who  is  the  aunt  of  every  one 
of  us,  has  the  lire,  the  force  and  the  pathos, 
that  in  my  opinion  not  even  Jefferson  nor 
Henry  could  surpass. 

It  is  long  but  it  is  good.  It  will  be  pub- 
lished in  the  future  in  the  JOURNAL,  and  with 
it  if  possible  a  picture  of  the  splendid  woman 
who,    as    Phillips    said    in     his     address,  was 


the    rarest    intellectuality;  wi 


111. m's  brain  wedded  to  a  woman's  instinct. 

This  friend  ol  Phillip's  of  Lincoln,  of  C.arri- 
son,  of  Knierson,  of  Thoreau,  of  Pillsbury, — 
this  woman  ennobles  our  race,  and  makes  us 
glad  that  we  are  living  men  and    women  and 


;ar 


mie. 


PERILS  OF  GENEOLOGICAL  RESEARCH. 
Among  the  hundreds  of  letters  that  1  have 
received  have  been  quite  a  number  asking 
the  editor  personally  for  his  own  genealogy. 
His  modesty  has  prevented  him  thus  far  from 
giving  it.  lint  sine  the  HASKELL  JOURNAL 
is  not  published   for  profit,  and  since    every 


Haskell  in  the  United  States  is  presumed  to 
be  upon  the  editorial  staff,  and  their  assist- 
ance is  demanded  in  solving  the  various 
problems  connected  with  the  Haskell  history, 
I  have  made  up  my  mind  to  yield  to  the  re- 
quest noted  above  and  to  state  something 
concerning  my  own  origin. 

I  married  a  widow  who  had  a  stepdaughter. 
My  father  married  the  stepdaugter.  That 
made  my  wife  the  mother-in-law  of  hi  i 
father-in-law  and  made  my  stepdaughter  my 
stepmother,  and  thus  my  father  became  my 
stepson.  Then  my  stepmother, stepdaughter 
of  my  wife,  had  a  son;  the  boy  was, of  course, 
my  biother  because  he  was  my  father's  son. 
But  he  was  also  the  son  of  my  wile's  step- 
daughter and  therefore  her  grandson.  And 
that  made  me  the  grandfather  of  my  step- 
brother. Then  my  wife  hail  a  sou,  his  name 
is  Astaroth;  thus  my  mother-in-law,  the  step- 
sister of  my  son  is  also  his  grandmother  be- 
cause he  is  her  stepson's  child.  My  father- 
in-law  is  the  brother-in-law  of  my  child  be- 
cause his  stepsister  is  his  wife.  I  am  there- 
fore the  brother  of  my  own  son  who  is  also 
the  child  of  my  step-grandmother.  I  am  my 
mother's  brother-in-law,  her  name  is  Maria 
liriggs  Haskell  and  she  is  still  living  after 
this.  My  wife  is  her  own  child's  aunt  and  I 
always  thought  there  was  something  weak  in 
her  mental  make-up  or  she  would  never  have- 
married  me.  But  the  peculiar  and  the  most 
peculiar  matter  of  the  whole  affair  is  this, 
that  while  my  son  is  my  father's  nephew  I 
am  certainly,  absolutely,  and  conclusively  my 
own  grandfather.  And  this  can  be  demon- 
strated by  all  the  rules  of   logic. 

Of  course  there  is  not  a  word  of  truth  in 
all  this  thing  but  it  proves  that  Shoel  itself 
has  no  terrors  like  those  inflicted  upon  the 
editor  in  the  attempt  to  connect  the  missing 
links  in  the  Haskell  family,  without  further 
information,  and  it  enforces  the  lesson  that 
every  one  of  you  people  ought  to  be  particu- 
lar in  filling  out  your  blanks  so  as  not  to  mix 
up  the  relations  too  much. 

A  mix-up  is  bad  for  the  community. 

I  trust  that  this  will  satisfy  those  people 
who  want  to  know  where  I  came  from,  and 
especially  that  it  will  make  you  all  careful 
concerning  your  dates  and  names,  and  induce 
you  all  to  send  #2  so  you  may  know  where 
you  are  at  hereafter. 

A  REQUEST. 
It  will  be  a  personal  favor  to  the  editors  of 
the  Journal  if  every  Haskell  will  send  to  us 
immediately  the  name  of  every  Haskell  by 
birth,  blood  or  marriage  that  they  know  of, 
so  that  we  can  send  them,  before  the  edition 
is  exhausted,  a  copy  of  the  Journal.  The 
country  is  so  wide  and  our  family  so  numer- 
ous that  it  is  virtually  impossible  through  the 
libraries  or  through  the  correspondence  in 
hand  to  find  more  than  fifty   per   cent  of  the 


IASkhl.1.    lOfKNAl 


people  who  arc  interested  in  this  publication. 
This  request  is  an  urgent  one,  and  it  is 
suggested  tbat  you  do  not  omit  attending  to 
it  at  once.  Send  us  every  possible  name 
whether  or  not  you  think  we  have  it.  If  we 
have  already  sent  to  them  we  will  find  the 
name  upon  our  list;  it'  not  the  person  who  re- 
ceives it  will  be  under  obligation  to  you  for 
furnishing  us  the  name. 

Please  do  not  sleep  upon  this  mattei  but 
make  out  a  list  of  everv  person  that  you 
know  of  the  Haskell  birth  or  blood  and  send 
it  tons  at  once. 

A  FINANCIAL  WARNING. 
A  large  number  of  the  subscribers  to  the 
Haskem.  Journal,  in  payment  of  their  sub- 
scriptions of  two  dollars,  have  forw  ard(  d  us 
checks  drawn  in  the  eastern  states  upon  their 
own  local  banks.  Iiach  check  has  In  en 
drawn  for  the  sum  of  two  dollars;  and  each 
check  in  order  to  be  collected  must  be  de- 
posited here  in  our  San  Francisco  banks  for 
collection,  and  when  collected  the  collection 
charges  are  deducted.  These  charges  are 
from  twenty  to  thirty  per  cent;  and  the  delay 
which  is  of  far  more  importance,  is  from  two 
to  three  weeks.  Now,  the  price  of  the  H.\s- 
KEI.L  JOUI.NAL  was  placed  at  the  lowest  pos- 
sible figure,  to  wit,  S2.  Please  hereafter  send 
by  postal  card. 


OUR    ANCESTOR'S     TRIALS. 

An    Interi'Sting   Account    at    the    Royalton    Kaiil    l>y 
0  m  try. 

[From  the  llislon  of  Kastern  Vermont  from  it 
earliest  settlement  to  the  cli.se.. I"  the  Kightecnlli 
Century,  with  .1  biof;  ra]  hit  al  1  Ii  ipd  1  and  uppcmlb 
hy  Benjamin  II.  Hall.   New  York     I).  Appletun  \  Co., 


SKIP     THIS. 
Skip  this  paragraph.     We  apologize.     It  is 
really  unfit  for  publication.     It  got   into  this 
column  by  mistake;  but   was   fortunately  dis- 
covered just  in  time  to  be  turned  on  the  press. 

J.I  .lit   inQ   '•"  I'Ol'lS  3AUl|  1.)   pui|    p,3A\    I| 
'||3^SB]I  1:  S|113<|    'SOA^S-lllO  (ISlIOp  3AUl|    p,aA\ 
•pBOJ     vpUOJ[M  SA.llOA    3| (H|IJ  IS      |I|  I 

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•Jiuppi.w  111  j.i.\,iiia|\\  ,imi.i\.i  oil  s.-uaqj, 
'Xbmh  )il'3|J   )"'s   »|  01  ii[»no  11  miy  " 
sjeiioi)  o.ui  si  -i\  \a.io|  .M[i  jo  aauil  oqj, 

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ttOtiaiuos  mo  11  put)  1  l .  > l :  |aq  n.a.M  puy 
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||>^si:|1    1:  53UJO.U   JBqi   Hiii1(1a"hb  SI  3.1311)   11 

A  dispatch  to  the  New  Yoik  /,  .  riial  from 
Minneapolis  under  date  of  February  S,  de- 
votes a  half  column  to  a  threat  of  Samuel 
Hill,  a  Minnsa polis  millionaire  that  "he  would 
cut  out  the  heart  and  eat  it."  of  William  I'.. 
Haskell,  the  editor  and  manager  of  the  Min- 
neapolis Tribune,  if  he  lost  a  suil  which  he 
had  pending  against  that  newspaper.  He- 
did  lose  the  suit.  Mr.  Haskell's  heart  is  all 
right  as  yet,  and  he  is  not  liable  to  furnish 
any  banquets;  he  is  a  Harvard  graduate  and 
not  only  mentally  but   physically  cultured. 


IS 


Rvery  Haskell  by  birth,  blood  or  marriage 
who  visits  San  Francisco  is  cordially  invited 
to  call  at  the  office  of  the  Joi'RNAI.. 


several  others  on  toot.  Mis.  !•',.  Parkhurst 
and  her  children  win;  were  left  at  the  house, 
expected  nothing  but  instant  death  from  the 
hands  of  the  enemy,  tin  their  approach, 
however,  having  taken  her  eldest  .son  pris- 
oner, they  ordered  her  and  her  five  children 
to  leave  the  house.  Obeying  these  com- 
mands, she  tied  to  the  woods  and  there  re- 
mained in  safety  until  the  foe  had  Kit  the 
place. 

Soon  after  Stevens  had  started  with  those 
who  were  on  foot,  his  dog  coming  in  his  way 
caused  him  to  stumble,  and  so  impeded  his 
progress  that  he  was  obliged  to  take  to  the 
woods  to  save  his  life.  The  Indians  pursu- 
ing with  frightful  yells,  the  unprotected 
pedestrians  who  had  been  so  unfortunately 
deprived  of  their  protector,  soon  overtook 
them.  Hut  the  enemy  were  loo  intent  on 
plunder  to  be  impeded  by  a  great  number  of 
captive  women  and  children,  and  ol  this 
company  Gardner  Rix,  a  boy  of  fourteen 
years  old,  was  alone  made  prisoner.  Ap- 
proaching the  house  ol  Mr.  Benedict,  and 
having  noticed  him  on  the  opposite  side  ot  a 
small  str,..ani  which  owed  near  by,  the 
Indians  beckoned  to  him  to  come  over  to 
them.  instead  of  seconding  their  wishes, 
he  quietly  stole  away  and  secreting  himself 
under  a  log,  remained  in  safety  till  the 
danger  had  passed.  While  in  this  situation, 
the  enemy    in     pursuit     of  him    were  at  one 

him  concealment,  and  he  learned  by  their 
com-,  rsatiou  that  they  were  re-solved  to 
tomahawk  him  should  they  find  him.  After 
going  down  the  river  about  forte  rods 
further,  and  capturing  a  young  man  named 
Aveiv,  thev  concluded  to  return.  Coming 
to  the  house  of  Tilly  Parkhurst.  situated 
about  six  miles  from  the  place  where  they 
entered  Royalton,  they  II red  at  his  son, 
Phineas,  who  had  just  returned  from  the  east 
side  of  the  river,  whither  he  hail  gone  to 
warn  the  settlers. 

The  Indians  who  went  down  on  the  east 
side  of  the  river,  having  gone  asfarasthe 
house  ol  1  '  rt,    in  Sharon,    made 

captive  his    nephew,    Nathaniel  Gill ,  and 

set  out  on  their  return.  As  they  retraced 
their  steps,  they  fired  every  building  within 
sight,  devastated  fields,  destroyed  cattle, 
wasted  the  garnered  crops,  and  spread  de- 
solation 'ion  with  unsparing 
hand. 


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Daniel  Havens — whose  escape  has  been 
already  mentioned— as  soon  as  the  savages 
had  gone,  ventured  from  his  hiding  place, 
and  coming  to  the  house  of  General  Stevens, 
gave  notice  that  the  Indians  were  "as  thick 
as  the  devil."  and  ieft  the  family  io  their 
fate.  A  hoy  named  Daniel  Waller,  who 
lived  .1'.  the  house,  hearing  that  the  Indians 
were  coming,  started  immediately  to  bear  the 
information  to  the  General,  but  had  pro- 
ceeded a  short  distant  only  when  he  was 
met  and  captured  by  the  foe.  Mrs.  Stevens, 
who  had  received  the  first  intimation  of  their 
approach  from  the  terrified  Havens,  had 
just  arisen  from  bed  with  her  infant  in  her 
arms,  when  the  third  party  who  had  gone 
up  the  river  entered  the  house.  Having 
.searched  the  dwelling  for  men,  hut  without 
success,  they  carried  the  beds  out  of  doors. 
and  cutting  them  open,  threw  the  feathers 
in  the  air  and  amused  themselves  by  watch- 
ing their  eddying  convolutions.  Alter 
plundering  the  house,  they  hade  Mrs. 
Stevens  "lie  gone  or  they  would  burn." 
Glad  of  an  opportunity  to  escape,  she  hast- 
ened with  her  child  to  the  adjacent  woods, 
where  she  remained  until  the  enemy  had 
left  the  town.  After  firing  the  dwelling  ami 
barn  thej  passed  up  the  river  as  far  as  Mr. 
Durker's,  where  they  took  two  of  his  sons. 
Adam  and  Andrew  prisoners.  Attracted  by 
a  smoke,  they  directed  their  course  towards 
it.  and  finding  a  young  man,  named  PlUNCK 
Haskell,  busily  engaged  in  clearing  land  for 
a  settlement  they  added  him  to  the  numberof 
their  captives. 

At  the  house  of  Klias  Curtis  they  took  him 
and  Peter  Mason  prisoners,  and  commenced 
the  work  of  plunder.  While  thus  engaged, 
John  Kent  rode  up  to  the  door,  intending  to 
get  his  horse  shod,  but  had  scarcely  dis- 
mounted when  he  was  seized  by  the  hair  of 
his  head  and  pulled  violently  over  back- 
wards. A  man  named  Chaffer  who  was  ap- 
proaching, seeing  that  Kent  had  been  taken, 
junped  from  his  horse,  and  by  pursuing  a 
course  which  enabled  him  to  use  a  black 
smith's  shop  to  cover  his  retreat,  effected  his 
escape.  He  immediately  set  out  for  the 
house  of  Mr.  llendee,  where  he  lived,  and 
on  reaching  it  gave  notice  of  the  on  coming 
danger,  llendee,  having  directed  his  wile- 
to  take  her  little  boy  about  seven  years  old, 
and  her  daughter  still  younger,  and  hasten 
to  the  house  of  a  neighbor,  started  to  go  to 
Bethel  for  the  purpose  of  giving  the  alarm 
at  the  fort.  Mrs.  llendee  had  not  proceeded 
tar  when  she  was  met  by  a  party  of  Indians 
who  deprived  her  of  her  son.  Anxious  for 
his  fate  she  asked  what  the>  intended  to  do 
with  him.  They  told  her  they  should  "make 
a  soldier  of  him,"  and  '.hen  hurried  him 
away,  while  the  weeping  mother  listened  to 
-  for  help,  as  he  vainly  endeavored 
to  free  himself    from  the    grasp  of  his    savage 


masters.     Having  returned   to  the    house  ol 

Mr.  Havens  with,  their  prisoners  and  plunder 
they  divided  the  latter  between  the  different 
numbers  of  the  party,  and,  having  set  fire  to 
the  house  and  ham,  started  for  Canada,  be- 
tween two  and  three  o'clock  in  the  afternoon. 
Crossing  the  hills  in  Timbridge,  King  west 
of  the  first  branch  of  White  river,  they  pro- 
ceeded to  Randolph,  in  which  town  they  en- 
camped on  the  banks  of  the  second  branch 
of  White  river,  having  gone  a  distance  of 
ten  miles. 

As  the  attack  had  been  so  sudden  and  un- 
expected, the  inhabitants  had  not  only  been 
unable  to  combine  for  resistance,  but  had  in 
many  cases,  through  terrible  fear,  failed  to 
exert  the  ordinary  means  of  self-preservation. 
So  many  hours  had  now  passed  since  the  first 
appearance  of  the  I  ndians,  that  the  alarm  had 
spread  far  and  near,  and  had  caused  the  most 
intense  agitation.  As  the  news  was  borne 
through  the  villages  that  borderthe  banks  of 
the  Connecticut,  the  bold  father  and  the  im- 
petus son,  the  hired  laborer  and  the  flourish- 
ing farmer,  all  who  could  be  spared  with 
safety,  left  their  firesides  and  homes  without 
further  warning,  and  marched  directly  to  the 
scene  of  plunder  and  devastation.  By  even- 
ing several  hundred  of  resolute  men  had  col- 
lected at  the  place  where  the  attack  was  first 
commenced,  ready  to  adopt  such  measures  as 
the  emergency  demanded. 

Here  a  company  was  organized,  and  Col. 
John  House,  of  Hanover,  New  Hampshire, 
who  had  served  several  campaigns  in  the 
continental  army,  was  chosen  commander. 
In  tiu  darkness  of  mid-night,  through  a  waste 
of  wilderness,  "guided  by  a  few  marked  trees 
amidst  the  logs,  rocks,  and  hills,  with  which 
the  country  abounded,"  this  undisciplined 
corps  began  their  march  in  quest  of  the  sav- 
age army.  Continuing  their  pursuit  with 
ardor,  they  reached  the  spot  where  the  last 
houses  had  been  destroyed,  and,  becoming 
aware  that  they  were  approaching  the  enemy, 
proceeded  with  more  caution.  The  Indians 
had  placed  their  sentries  nearly  half  a  mile 
in  the  rear  of  their  encampment,  at  a  spot 
situated  a  few  rods  from  the  river.  Near 
this  spot  was  a  small  hill,  and  by  the  side  of 
the  adjacent  path  stood  a  number  of  large 
trees  behind  which  were  posted  the  Indian 
guards.  A  large  log  was  the  only  bridge 
provided  for  crossing  the  river,  and  this 
served  for  foot-passengers  only.  Some  of 
House's  men  were  mounted,  others  were  on 
loot,  and  their  precarious  situation  at  the 
river  rendered  it  necessary  for  them  to  ob- 
serve the  utmost  circumspection.  The  front 
guard  passed,  the  log  and  the  Indian  sentries 
in  safety.  About  one  third  of  the  main  body 
had  1  rossed  the  stream,  and  the  van  had  ar- 
rived within  a  few  yards  of  the  enemy's 
guards,  when  they  were  fired  on  from  behind 
tlie  tiees  and  one  man     was    wounded.      The 


ASKELL  lODRXAl, 


fire  was  returned  by  the  Americans.  One  of 
the  Indians  was  killed  and  two  were  wound- 
ed. The  sentries  then  left  their  ambush  and 
ran  off  to  the  Indian  camp,  while  House's 
men  advanced  a  little  further  and  then 
formed  themselves  within  three  hundred 
yards  of  the  enemy's  rendezvous  and  awaited 
the  approach  of  day.  "Great consternation," 
observes  Williams,  "now  prevailed  among  the 
savages.  Much  fatigued,  and  in  a  profound 
slumber  after  one  of  their  ravenous  suppers, 
the  alarm  tilled  them  with  fear  and  confusion." 
But  they  were  not  deficient  in  stratagem, 
nor  destitute  of  policy.  Taking  one  of  their 
prisoners  named  Kneeland,  an  aged  num. 
they  sent  him  to  the  Americans  with  the  in- 
formation that  the  Indians  would  instantly 
put  all  the  captives  to  death,  should  an  at- 
tack lie  made.  To  Giles  Gibbs  and  Joseph 
Kneeland  the  rage  of  the  savages  had  already 
proved  fatal.  The  former,  expecting  that  his 
friends  would  relieve  him  and  his  compan- 
ions, had  refused  to  march.  He  was  after- 
wards found  with  a  tomahawk  buried  deep 
in  his  head.  The  latter  was  killed  and 
scalped  to  avenge  the  death  of  the  Indian 
who  had  been  shot  by  the  Americans.  As 
soon  as  the  old  man,  Kneeland,  had  been 
sent  to  the  camp  of  the  pursuers,  the  Indians 
renewed  their  flight  with  the  utmost  expedi- 
tion, leaving  at  their  encampment  a  lar^e 
quantity  of  the  plunder,  and  nearly  all  the 
horses  they  had  taken.  Having  placed  their 
best  warriors  in  the  rear  to  cover  their  retreat, 
they  crossed  White  river  early  on  the  morn- 
ing of  the  17th,  proceeded  up  the  west  bank, 
and  having  made  prisoner  of  Zadock  Steele, 
who  resided  in  the  north  part  of  Randolph, 
passed  through  the  west  part  of  Brookfield, 
and  on  reaching  Berlin  encamped  on  Dog 
river, not  many  miles  from  the  place  where  the 
capital  of  the  state  is  now  located.  To  secure 
the  captives  more  effectually  at  night,  a  rope 
was  passed  around  their  bodies  as  they  lay 
upon  the  ground,  and  between  each  of  them 
and  upon  the  rope  was  placed  an  Indian. 
By  this  device  no  two  of  the  prisoners  weie 
allowed  to  lie  together,  and  attempt  atescape 
was  rendered  useless.  Continuing  their 
course  down  Dog  rivei  the  party  struck  On- 
ion river,  alone;  which  they  passed  until  they 
reached  Lake  Champlain  on  the  20th.  Here 
the  Indians  found  the  batteau  in  which 
they  had  come  on  their  march  to  Royalton. 
Embarking  in  these  they,  with  their  cap- 
tives, commenced  their  journey  down  the 
lake,  and  after  stopping  at  Grand  Isle  and 
the  Isle  Ant  Noix,  reached  St.  John's  on  the 
22nd,  having  been  nearly  seven  days  on  the 
route.  On  the  following  day  the  captives 
were  taken  to  Caughnawaga.  where  many  of 
them  were  temporarily  adopted  by  the  In- 
dian families,  residents  at  that  place.  After 
remaining  in  this  condition  for  a  few  weeks, 
they  were  taken    to    Montreal    in    the    latter 


part  of  November,  and  were  there  sold  to  the 
British  as  prisoners  of  war  "for  a  half  Joe" 
each.  Of  the  twenty-five  who  were  carried 
away,  one,  Adam  Durkee.  died  while  in  cap- 
tivity. Twenty-three  were  exchangedor  re- 
deemed, and  returned  to  their  friends  during 
the  ensuing  summer.  The  remaining  prison- 
er, Zadock  Steele,  after  enduring  a  long  con- 
finement and  being  subjected  to  many  uarh- 
ships,  finally  effected  his  escape  and  reached 
the  home  of  his  parents  in  Ellington,  Con- 
necticut, on  the  i;th  of  October,  1782,  just 
two  years  from  the  day  on  which  he  was 
taken  by  the  Indians  at    Randolph. 


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Ky<,.j 


A  Short  Account  of  the  Descendants  of 
Win.  Haskell  of  Gloucester,  Mass. 


12     Wm.uam  Haskei.l.,3  known    as    "En- 

sign    Haskell,"   was    born     .November  ■>,     I  ^>  ~>  >. 

resided  in  Gloucester,  Mass.,  where  he  died 
January  17,  [731,  leaving  an  estate  of  2,565 
pounds  of  which  vessels,  warehouse,  salt 
arrd   a  negro  man    formed     a  part. 

He  settled  on  or  near  the  ancestral  prop- 
erty which  being  favorably  situated  for 
maritime  pursuits,  he  engaged  in  both  fishing 
and  agricultural  employments.  He  was  orre 
of  those  who  in  the  first  quarter  of  the 
eighteenth  century  engaged  irr  a  vigorous 
prosecution  of  the  fishing  business,  but  he- 
appears  to  have  been  the  only  one  who  so 
carried  it  on  in  the  section  where  he  lived, 
and  the  settlement  of  his  estate  shows  that  he- 
pursued  it  with  success. 

He  was  usually  called  "Ensign  Haskell" 
from  the  office  he  held  in  a  military  com- 
pany, arrd  was  deacon  of  the  second  church 
for  a  few  years  prior  to  his  death;  also  a 
selectman  at  different  times. 

He  married  September  S,  1692,  Abigail 
Davis,  probably  the  daughter  of  Captain 
James  Davis,  who  died  December  .v.  '  7.V. 
at  tire  age  of  fifty-eight  years,  and  by  whom 
he  had  the  following  children: 

52  i         William,  b. 1693. 

53  ii        Mark,  b.  August  to,  1695. 

5<     iii      Elizabeth,  b.  Nov.  29,   1696;  in.  John  Par- 
sous,  1  line  6,  17  1  r  >. 

55  iv       Abigail,  b.  Aug.  16,   1699;  in.   John  Tyler, 

I'eLl  11.11  \    22,  172.'. 

56  v        Jemima,  1).  December    r.  17114;  111.  Joseph 

1)  r,is.  Sept,  21,  1732,  and    Lieut.  Thomas 
Allen  in  17s*. 

57  vi      Jedediah,    b.  Jufj    31,    170S.1l.    Aug.    17. 

17  18. 

58  vii       Keziah,    b.    Keb.    28,     1711;   '•'-    Samuel 

I  lerrick,  Jan.  ;s,  1 7 3 1 . 

59  viii     fames,   b.  Sept.  24,  171-';  ui.  Anna   Good- 

hue, in  17;.,.  and  was  dismissed  from 
the  church  in  Gloucester,  Mass.,  to 
tin-  church  in  Harvard,  Ma-s..in  1751.. 


!•   HASKI-XI,  lorux.M, 


13    Joseph  Haskells  was  hem  April  20, 

1673.  resided  in  Gloucester,  M;i».,  and  died 
there  April  11,  171s,  aged  forty-three  years. 
In  his  will  lie  directed  that  his  son  NIoses 
should  "learn  the  trade  and  mystery  ofa 
cooper"  which  was  his  own  trade. 

He  married  March  [9,  1696,  Rachel  lil- 
well.  the  date  of  whose  death  is  not  known, 
by  whom  he  had    the  following  children: 

60  i  Rachel,  b.  March  13,  1697;  m  Jeremiah 
Riggs,   Dec.  31,  17  i ' ». 

<n  ii  Joseph,  b.  Dec.  r(>,  [698;  111.  Max  17,  1720, 
Mary  Woodward,  and  lived  to  be  up- 
wards of  ninety  years  of  age.  He 
was  dismissed  from  the  church  in 
Gloucester,  Mass.  to  the  church  in 
1 1  11  v  .11.1,  Mass.,  in  17  ;> 

62  iii       Abraham,    b.    March    8,    17m;  m.    Amy 

Stevens.  Hew. is  dismissed  from  the 
church  in  1  Sloucester,  Muss.,  to  the 
church    in  Stratham,  Mass.,  in   1732. 

63  tv        Hannah,  b.  June  28,  [703;  m,  James  God- 

frey, Hi  ne  1,  1723. 
(.4     v        Moses,  b.  Dec.  25,  1705;  d.    probably    be- 
fore rca<  hing  manhood 
(.5     vi        Stephen,  b.  July  7.  1708;    d.  probably  he- 
lure  reaching  manhoi  id. 
t\(<     vii         Andrew,   b.     Dee.    (•,     1711;     111.     Elinor 

Haskell,  netol.tr  -,.  17 -,7. 
1.7     viii      Jeremiah,  b.  October  23,  1711. 

15  Henry  Haskell,.,  was  born  April  2, 
1678,  and  died  in  Harvard,  Mass,,  date  un- 
known, to  which  place  he  removed  from 
Gloucester,  Mass.,  in  1735. 

He  married,  Ruth,  probably  York,  Jan.  13, 
1703,  and  was  dismissed  from  the  church  in 
Gloucester,  Mass,,  to  the  church  in  Harvard, 
Mass.,  upon  his  removal  thereto. 

One  of  his  daughters  married  a  Mead, 
probably  after  the  removal  to  Harvard. 

His  children  were   as  follows: 
f.s     i  Ruth,  l>.  Oct.  7,  17"-,;  d   (  let.  is,  [703. 

in)  ii  Mary,  b.  Nov.  n,  17114;  "'■  Benjamin 
Ray,  of  I'almouth,  now  1'.. aland,  Mc, 
Maj   12,    1726. 

70  iii     Henry,  b.  July    5,  1706;  m.  Huldah   Smith 

in  1731 ;  was  dismissi-d  Imni  the  church 
in  Gloucester,  Mass.,  to  the  church  iu 
Harvard,  Mass.,  111   17 -,7. 

71  iv       Ruth.b.  August     27,     1709.     She    or    her 

sister  I.vdia  married  a   Mead. 

72  v        Sarah,  b.  Augnst  19,    171?;    in.    Nathaniel 

Brav,  November  22,  173V 
7;     m        Samuel,  t>    Seplouihei  .;.  1713. 


(IKNKAI.OGY  OF  U.  W.   IIASKHI  '  . 
iMirnislii'd  li\   S.  1".  Haskell  and  Mrs,  1,.  IV.  Ilaskc 


1111,    Mi 


Joel   Haskell,    born   June    8,    1797 

married  December  17.  1S17,  at  Camden;   died  .\ 

2,  1S52,  at  Liberty,    Me,;    married    Sarah  V.  Jin 

li    111  August  S.  [N02,  at  V  amdeli.  Me  ,    ; 

who  died  December  29,  1S77,  at  Liberty.  Mr. 
cim.Dki.N  01'  1  in-:  Aiiovi-: 
Joab  1:    Haskell,  born  Ma-.  9,  1819,  al    Camden,    I* 

died  October  -,.  isis,  at  Liberty  Me. 
Elizabeth  e'.  Haskell,  bom  August  27,  1820,  at    Ci 

den.  Me.;  married  December  is,    1843,    by    Dai 

him-mi,  died  l-'cbruary  10,  is'-s  at  Libert)   Mi 


William  Haskell,  hi.ni  I  line  1,  1S22,  at  Camden.  Mi 
died  April   n.   iS,,o,  at   K.nklaiid.  Mi-. 

Joel  W.  Haskell,  1 1  Dcccmbei  27,  1823,11!  1  amdc 

Me.;  died  September  17.  1884,  at  Moniville,   Me. 

Stephen  1'.  Haskell,  horn  August  29,  [825,  al  Libert 
Mc;  Still  livine  at    Liberty;  and  reouesied  to    cm  I 


v  A.  Haskell,  I.  >rn  May  10,  1H27,  at 
.-d  May   1  1,  is-,  at   Liberty,  Me. 
u.-l  Haskell,  born  May  to,  1S28  at 


I- 1 


.1  !.:,.. 


x,   Me.; 
y,     Me. 

iskells' 


Is.,.,,-  I..  Haskell,  horn  February  2  |,   1S32,  al  Libert 

Me.;  died  M;n   .-7,  1S47. lit  I  ibertj  .  Me. 
Sarah  I-    Haske'll,  born  Decembei   5,  1833,  at  Libert 

Me.;  died  August  2(1,  i.njs,  ,,t  Liberty,  Me. 
Hill  I-!.  Haskell,  hum  October  -'2,  lN(Sa't  Liberty,  Mi 

died  March  i-s,  1873,  at  Redwood  i  ily,  Cal.  ' 
Philip  T.  Haskell,  bom  June  5,  iS^S,  at  Liberty,  Me 

died  January  1.  is.,|,  at  1-Y.mkbnt,  Me. 
George  W.  Haskell,  born  June    ;,    184 1,  at    Libert 

Mi    .  died  July  10,  1841,  al  Liberty,  Mc. 
Josiah  A.  Haskell,  bom    March    19,"  1846,  at    Libert 

Me.;  still  living  at  Monroe,  Me. 


Mr.  Iturnette  C.  Haskell,  lyG  Market  St., 
Francisco 

DlJAR  Sir:  1  have  this  da)  been  looking  ovei 
IIaskkij.  Journal,  which  I  want  to  pronoui 
ijoot!  thing.  The  Haskells"  are  worthy  of  a  J01 
md  the  Journal  is  worthy  of  the  Haskells'. 
:lose  find  check  for  subscription.     Wishing  vou 


rtaki 


Haskell,  Jr 


GENliALOliY  01;   (J.  R.  IIASKKIJ.. 

27',  Ninth  slreet,  Oakland    Cal. 

[  have  two  brothers  living,  one  in  Wyoming  and 
one  in  Missouri,  my  birth   place. 

M\  father  was  a  Vcrmonter.  His  name  u  is  Daniel 
Thomas  Haskell.  He  once  had  a  brother  in  lies 
Moines,  Iowa,  in  the  dry  goods  business.  1  have 
never  seen  nor  heard  of  him  since  my  father  died 
when  I  was  eight  years  of  age.  I  am  now  thirty. 
Send  to  my  brothers,  R.  E.  Haskell.  Laramie  City, 
Wyominj?,  and  D.  I.  Haskell,  Gara,  Genln  Co.,  Mis- 
souri,  for  further  information. 

One  of  the  largest  firms  in  the  country  is 
the  Wolterstoff-Haskell  Range  and  huniacc 
company  of  St.  Paul,  Minn.  Samuel  Chaun- 
cey  Haskell  is  the  acting  member  of  the  linn, 
his  great-grandfather  being  Samuel  of  Roch- 
ester and  North  [J  rook  fie  Id,  1734-1820.  There 
will  latter  appear  in  the  Jofrnal  an  account 
of  the  experiences  of  one  of  his  ancestors  who 
was  drawn  as  a  juror  in  one  of  the  celebrated 
witchcraft  cases  at  Salem  in  [692.  He  was 
utterlv  opposed  to  such  proceedings  and 
deemed  them  unjust  and  illegal.  And  at 
midnight  preceding  the  trial,  although  drawn 
and  summoned  to  appear,  saddled  his  horse, 
packed  his,  s.  id,  lie  -bags  and  rode  from  Salem 
to    Boston     and     thence     to    Rochester.      That 

was  the  proper  style  of  a  man. 

There  is  another  American  artist  ill  Paris 
who  has  recently  been  decorated  with  the 
grand  cross  of  the  Order  of  Nelusileof  Prince 
( itiy  tie  I.usignan,  her  name  is  Miss  Mabel 
Percy    Haskell, 


Tin-  mask: 


loruxAL 


A  PERSONAL  NARATIVF 


'iniicci-  l:nnn  181 ' 


IIV   EDWARD  \V.   IIASKl'I.l.. 
Notk.  —  A  correction  in  the  Inst  Kmu-  is  necessary. 

it  is  stated  that  my  mother,  Roxv,  married  Lyman 
Stewart.  There  is  an  ellipsis  here.  Tin-  sentence 
should  read:  "My  mother  married  Kdward  Wilder 
Haskell;  my  Aunt  Roxey  married  Lyman  Mnv.irl. 

We  removed  from  Barnard  to  Randolph 
when  I  was  eight  years  of  age.  My  step- 
father was  a  large  farmer.  lie  also  carried 
mi  the  business  of  tanner  anil  currier.  The 
farm  was  one  mile  south  of  the  village  of 
Randolph  Center. 

Aftei  a  few  years  my  stepfather  moved  to 
the  village  to  live  ami  leased  the  farm.  He 
owned  three  houses  in  the  village  and  the 
family  took  possession  ol  the  best.  Here  my 
stepfather  erected  a  lurge  tannery,  ami  en- 
tered extensively  into  the  business,  buying 
hides  ami  sheep  pelts  wherever  to  he  found, 
principally  in  Boston  and  .New  York:  buying 
sheep  and  slaughtering  them  for  their  pelts 
and  tallow  and  sending  the  fattest  and  best 
to  Boston  for  fond,  and  manufacturing  the 
hides  into  leather,  the  sheep  skins  into  mo- 
rocco and  kill,  and  both  into  boots  and  shoes 
for  the  Boston  and  New  York  market. 

J.  I,.  French  was  brought  from  Boston  to 
superintend  the  boot  and  shoe  making  de- 
partment. This  business,  which  was  suscept- 
ible of  large  profits  or  large  losses.  v\  as  carried 
on  about  three  years  and  then  closed  up  at 
a  very  considerable  loss.  1  was  employed  in 
the  various  departments  where  my  service- 
were  most  needed.  After  the  business  was 
closed  the  family  all  returned  to  the  farm  to 
reside. 

Here  [  will  remark  incidently  that  my 
stepfather  had  been  substituted  as  guardian 
in  place  of  Danforth  of  Barnard,  and  that  the 
property  to  which  the  heirs  were  entitled 
was  swallowed  in  the  unfortunate  speculation 
above  referred  to.  How  much  it  was  I  have 
never  taken  the  trouble  to  inquire  but  it 
must  have  been  considerable. 

As  soon  as  we  returned  to  the  farm  my 
stepfather  decided  that  the  least  he  could  do 
to  compensate  the  heirs  for  the  loss  of  their 
property  through  him  was  to  give  them  each 
a  liberal  education.  Accordingly  in  my  six- 
teenth year  I  commenced  school  at  the 
academy  at  Randolph  Center. 

Hitherto  I  had  only  been  at  school  during 
one  term  in  the  year  viz:  in  the  winter,  and 
during  the  last  two  years  none  at  all.  So 
you  will  perceive  that  my  advantages  had 
been   very  limited. 

1  commenced  at  the  academy  with  I.atin, 
Arithmetic,  Philosophy,  Chemistry,  etc.,  etc. 
The  first  winter  after  commencing  school,  1 
taught     school    two    miles    east  of   Randolph 


Center.  1  was  well  up  in  Arithmetic,  grnm- 
mer.  geography,  etc.,  etc.,  which  was  all  that 
was  necessary  to  be  Latlgllt  in  the  school  in 
which  1  wasengaged.  I  came  out  with  fly- 
ing colors,—:,  c,  1  gave  excellent  satisfaction. 

I  had  one  scholar  twenty-one  years.  He 
gave  me  no  trouble.  1  was  compelled  to 
punish  one  large  strapping  girl,  fifteen  years 
of  age,  which  I  have  always  regretted.  But 
in  those  days,  in  that  part  of  the  country,  ii 
was  not  the  practice  to  expell  scholars  for 
disobedience  to  authority.  The  teacher  was 
required  and  expected  to  maintain  authority 
and    obedience. 

One  other  instance  1  shall  relate  which  I 
diil  not  regret,  because  its  effect  upon  the 
discipline  (if  the  school  was  so  decisive  that 
during  the  balance  of  the  term  my  authority 
was  respected.  The  scholars  had  become  a<  - 
customed  to  lose  time  in  returning  from 
school  by  sliding  upon  the  ice  ponds.  It  was 
such  jolly  fun  they  could  not  resist  the  tempt- 
ation. 

On  their  return  from  school  their  services 
were  required  at  home  to  milk  the  cows,  iced 
the  cattle  and  do  the  other  usual  chores  per 
taining  to  a  farmer's  household.  The  par- 
ents complained  to  me  in  the  matter  and 
wished  me  to  see  that  their  children  went 
directly  home  from  school  without  stopping 
to  play  upon  the  ice.  I  can  perceive  now 
that  it  was  their  business  and  not  mine;  that 
after  the  children  left  the  school  house  they 
were  no  longer  under  my  control.  Never- 
theless I  gave  the  order, — and  it  was  dis- 
obeyed. The  parents  of  the  very  boy  I  was 
compelled  to  punish  sent  me  word  again  in 
the  matter.  This  boy  was  the  ringleader, 
about  fifteen  years  old  and  larger  than  my- 
self. The  next  morning  [  was  informed  that 
my  order  had  been  disobeyed.  1  questioned 
the  chief  culprit.  Yes,  he  had  done  so  and 
should  do  so  whenever  he  liked;  he  did  not 
think  I  could  have  any  control  over  him 
after  he  had  left  the  school  house.  He  was 
wrv  independent  and  important,  [told  one 
of  my  scholars  that  I  knew  I  could  di  pend 
upon  to  go  out  and  g«  I  me  a  h 
good  gads.  He  brought  them  into  the 
school  house — six  feet  long,  beach.  I  took 
one  of  them,  trimmed  it  very  deliberately, 
reduced  it  to  the  length  of  about  four  feet 
put  it  through  the  Homes  of  the  tire  to  take- 
out the  frost,  and  then  went  to  my  desk 
and  told  John  to  walk  out  into  the  vacant 
space  in   the   middle  of  the  school   room. 

He  refused  to  obey  me.  I  stepped  down 
from  my  desk  and  marched  up  to  where 
he  sat  and  commenced  to  slush  him  over 
the  head  and  shoulders.  A  half  do/en  blows 
was  sufficient  to  convince  him  that  I  meant 
business.  He  wilted  and  came  out  into  the 
vacant  Space  as  1  had  ordered  him  to  do. 
"Now  sir,"  said  I,  "take  off  your  (.cat." 
ii'm  i.c  continued.) 


ipjilemcnl  to  the  Haskell  Journal. 

County  Stall. 


From 

Address 

Occupation 

gar  Please  return  at  once,  filled  out,  to  Hikxkttk  ('..  Haskri.j.  Kditor  of  the  M  vskri. 
Journal,  [346  Markel  St,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


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Please  give  on  tins  si 
your  grandfather,  your  1 
death;  date  and  place  of  1 
number,  names,  sex  and  1 


he  following  informati 

and   yourself;  name 

th;  date  and  place  of 

nee,  births  and  deaths 


in  relation  to  your  great-grandfather, 

une  of  wile  and  date  of  her  birth  and 

his  children;  general  remarks,  etc. 


THE 


I,  JOURNAL 


[OHN  LELAND  HASKELL'S  HISTORY. 

FAMILY    RECORD. 

(Father)  Ebeuezer  Haskell  born  July  15,  [804; 
died  Jul)  19,  is;,,;  married  Lydia  Phillips  April  13; 
is.",;  I'erii    Mass. 

(Mother)  Lyilia  Phillips  Haskell  boru  March  14, 
[8       dii  d  |ul\   [6,  isss 

(Children)  A  daughter,  born   March  28,  1825;  died. 

Richard  Baxtei  Haskell,  born  February  23,  1826; 
married  Martha  Frissel  April  30,  1848.  at  Peru,  Mass.; 
died  January  1  1,  1S70;  left   two  children,   Byron  and 

John  Leland  Haskell,  born  June  i.\  is.-;;  married 
Eliza  Ashton  September  ".  1851,  at  San  Kraucisco; 
F.Iiza  died  Ma,.  Ii  1  ;,  is;s:  married  Virginia  11.  Mon- 
ahanjune  12,  1S84,  who  died  June  15.  1897,   aged    .13 

Lydia  Eliza  Haskell,  born  March  14.  1832;  died 
March  31,  1843 

Marj  Haskell,  born  Decembei  5,  is;,;  married 
Milo  Stowell  April  .• ;.  iv.s.  Hinsdale,  Mass.;  died 
August  22,  iHSq;  bad  four  children;  three,  Marion, 
Mvron,  Melvin,  now  residing  in  Detroit,  Mich. 

S  Sophronia  Haskell,  born  Februarj  9,  1S39;  "lar- 
ried  Charles  M.  Combs  of  Middlefield,  Mass.,  Septem- 
ber 15,  1H5S;  residt  nt  at  present  Chester,  Mass.;  lias 
seven  children,  six  married  and  now  living  in  Spriug- 
field,  Mass.;  Iheir  nanus  arc  Cora,  Arthur,  John, 
Willis,  Charles,  Ada  and  Mabel. 

Grandfather  Roger  Haskell,  horn,  at  Dorchester, 
Mass.,  1750;  married   in  1S40;  died  |8}6. 

(Children) Roger  Haskell, Zachariah,  Simon,  Hulda, 
Phinneas,  Ebeuezer,  Allen.  Sarah.  Lester  and  Lucy; 
Lucy  married  Dr.  Hubbard,  lived  111  New  Bedford, 
Mass.,  came  to  California  in  1849,  made  a  large  for- 
tune, returned  to  Mass.  in  1850,  moved  to  Kansas 
where  he  was  living  at  last  accounts. 

Grandmother's  lather.  Smith  Phillips,  horn  near 
Boston,  Mass.,  about  1754;  died  [841.  One  son,  Ebe- 
uezer, lived  in  Wdliainshuig,  Mass.,    [S40. 

Smith    Phillips,     married  ;  one    soil     lived     in 

Williamsburg,  .Mass. 

Smith  Phillips,  married  M.  A.  I. eland  (second  wife) 
children,  Polly,  bom  1791;    married    A.    Units;   died 

Electa,  horn  [796;  died  1871;  married  a  Pierce. 

Lydia,  horn  1707;  died   [SS5;  married  a  Haskell. 

Levy,  1 1  17.,.,.  die.  1  184S;  married;  lived  in  Al- 
bany, N\  V. 

Washington,  bom  iSoi;died  187s;  married;  lived 
in  Albany,  N.  Y. 

Anna  L..  burn  1806;  died  1890;  married  a  Scovil ; 
lived  in  Albany,  N.  Y. 

Daughter,  boru  ;  .lied  ;  married  a  Richard; 
Hinsdale,  Mass. 

All  ol  the  Phillips  raised  large  families  of  boys  and 
girls  who  are  lllling    high    stations    in    these    United 

Stale, 

All  ..I  the  .  hildren  that   R.  ger    Haskell  had,  r  li  ;ed 

i'iiuu)  ol   the    Si..;,,   of    the     Union,   Massachusetts, 

Illinois,  Minnesota,  Kansas,  Caliloinia,  etc 


GENEALOGY  OF  PLINY  FISK  HASKELL. 
•  The  Rev.T.  N.  Haskell  of  Denser,  Col.,  will  an- 
swer all  iiuestions  concerning  my  ancestors  better 
than  I  can  do.  Filch  Haskell  is  a  Congregational 
minister.  C.  P.  Haskell  and  wife  are  recently  Sev- 
enth   I'av    A.  1\  enlists. 

Anna  Eliza  Haskell  was  horn  December  30,  1847; 
married  Franklin  Solomon  Pitch  May  28,  1872. 
Charles  Pliuy,  born  April  15,  1851;  married  July  4, 
I872,  to  Marj   Wright,  both  horn  111  Bloomfi. 

George  Henry,  born  in  Geneva,  Ohio,  March  n. 
iSso,  married  lama  E.  Williams  Mas  9,  1878. 

Vinuella  Marie,  born  March  10,  1800;  married 
Franklin  I  Hubbard  August  29,  1877.  All  were  res- 
idents of  Geneva  and  Ashtabula,  I 


My  own  name    is    Plinj    Fisk    Haskell,  my    wife's 

n. one  Maria  Anna  Morgan;  I  "as  1 1  |„1\    25,  1S23, 

at  Minn,  Chautauqua  Co.,  N.  Y.;  I  was  married  Align  t 
[9,  1846,  at  Bloomfn  Id,  Trumbull,  Co.,  1  >hio;  my 
children  were  four,  two  male  and  two  female;  Anna 
Eliza,  Charles  Pliny,  George  Henry,  and  Viunella 
Marie;  all  temperate;  all   married   lip  Lop;  I  have  al- 

Aniia  E.  H.  Fitch  (Rev.  F.  S.  Fitch)  lues  in  Strat- 
ford, Conn.  Charles  Plinv,  In. nest  farmer,  lives  near 
Beaver  City,  Furnas  Co.,  Neb.  George  II.  is  with 
me  in  the  store,  Geneva,  Ohio.  Viunella  M.  Hub- 
bard, who  married   F.  I.  Hubbard    a    farmer,  lives  ,„ 


FROM  MRS.  LEONIDAS  HASKELL. 
Wakei  [Eld,  Mas,.,  Feb.  2,  [898. 
Mr.  Haskell:  I  was  very  much  pleased  to 
see- the  1 1  as u  1:1.1.  Jouunal  a  few  days  ago 
that  was  received  by  my  son  Harry  Haskell 
of  this  town,  and  later  my  son  Broderick 
Haskell  of  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  wrote  that 
he  had  received  a  copy  of  the  same  Journal 
and  had  subscribed  for  himself  and  for  me  also, 
that  mine     would  be  sent  here.    ;  ■     1  send 

by  this  mail  an  old  Gloucester  Advertiser,  in 
it  yon  will  see  a  sketch  of  Aunt  Hitty  Has- 
kell, her  life  and  death.  She  was  an  aunt  of 
my  husband  and  known  by  a  great  many 
Haskells.both  in  this  slate  and  Maine. 

I  will  send  some  items  from  time  to  time. 
My  youngest  brother  lives  in  Alameda,  Cal., 
his  place  of  business  is  in  San  I'rancisco,  I  vou 
may  know  him,  Walter  YV.  Haskell  1  in  Mills 
Build  iii";. 

Mrs.  Leonidas  Haskell. 


The  old   Haskell  house    on    Concord    street.    West 
Gloucester,  is  being  torn  down.      It  was  built  in  1801 
by  Amos  Haskell.     Mrs.  I.v.ha  1 1 .  Hras  is  a  daughter 
ol  Mr.  Haskell,  and,  although  she  was  not    bom  until 
near   eleven    years    after    the    house    was    I      ilt,      rile 
plainly  recalls  hearing  her  mother  tell  ..I     bow  when 
the  finish  was  being  put  on  the  house   shi 
I, can  pot  on  one  ol    tile   girders    foi  a  few 
and  when  she  looked  lor  it    she    found  a  stupid    car- 
penter had  finished  it  in.     She  many    times    pointed 
..in  the  exac  t  pla<  <■  where  her  favorite  bean  pot    was 
cemented,  as  she  bemoaned  the    loss.     So 
sv.rk  of  destruction  was  begun  a  few  davs   ago   Mrs. 
I:, as    told  the  men  where  to  look    for  the  til 
past  centurv.      And.  lo!  when  the  plate   was  reached, 
there  was  the  hcan  pot,  apparently  reads    : 
lor  another  too  year-. 


The  last  pages  of  each  issue  of  the  JOURNAL 
you  will  observe  are  numbered  separ- 
ately. They  are  designed  to  be  detatched 
and  finally  hound  in  a  volume  by  themsel- 
ves. The  first  sixteen  pages  will  be  num- 
bered consecutively  and  can  be  bound  in  the 
same  style  to  accompany  the  genei 
of  the  family.  At  the  conclusion  of  the 
year,  or  ol  the  volume,  the  Journal  will 
make  arrangements  with  its  subscribers  for 
the  binding,  not  only  of  the  filesol  the  paper 
but  of  the   History  as  well. 


THE    MASK 


A  SAMPLE   LETTER.  Walter  N.   Haskell 


Sterling,  111.,  and    a    warm    si 

JOURNAL. 


ami  has  assisted  ns  considerably 

Hie  editor  is  not  nnlv  pleased  but  is  reall 
onished  to  Unci  out  liow  many  cl  Hie  nam 


MR.  Bt'RNETTU  G.   11  'SKTil 

Dear  Sir:   I  would  like  to  thank    you 
the  Ha.sk em.  Journal  which  was    received  Miss  Arline  Haskell  of   the   Hotel    Bristol, 

yesterday.  The  Journal    was    very    in       New  V 

teresting  to  me  as  one  of   the  5.000,  and  will      l,u'  ■'"' 
be  also  to  my  brother,  Frederick  A.  Haskell 

who  resides  at  No.  5  Arlington  Place,  B k 

lyn.  N.  Y.,  and  has  given  considerable  time  served  with  honor  and  glory  in  the  war.. 
in  looking  up    the-  authentic    records  of  our      the  Rebellion. 

family.     We   descended    from  William   lias-  

kellol    Gloucester,    Mass,    in    the    following  The  San  Antonia  dailv  /i.vftress  of  Januan 

order:  Win.  Haskell  settled  in  Beverly,  1632;  6th,  and  the  New  Oilcans  Tim,  -  /'  <  ■:  0 
settled  in  Gloucester  1643;  married  Mary  December  26th  last,  contain  articles  of  tw< 
Tibbets  November  6,  1643,  died  in  Glnucesti  r  and  three  columns  in  each  issue  commending 
August  i",  1693;  their  children,  Joseph  and  n,e  artistic  work  abroad  of  Mr.  and  Mrs  Has 
William.  kell-Tlioinas.     Kxcerpts  therefrom  mav  here 

Wm.     Haskell    2d,    born     in     Gloucester      aftei  be  published 
August  26,  1644;  married  Mary    Walker  [uly 
5,  i667;died  June  s,  1 70S;  had  eleven  children. 

Joseph  Haskell,  son  of  Wm.  Haskell  2d, 
born  in  Gloucestei  1673;  married  Rachel 
HI  well  1696;  died  171S. 

Joseph   Haskell   2d,  Son  Of    Joseph      Haskell 

ist,  born  [698;  married  Mary  Woodward  1720; 
removed  to  Harvard,  Mass.,  1735;  died  August 
7,  1791;  Mary  his  w  ifedied  February  23,  174s. 

Solomon  Haskell,  son  of  Joseph  Haskell  2d, 
born  in  Harvard,  Mass.,  1 740  or  41;  married 
Betty  Davis  in  Harvard  April  21,  1774:  their 
children,  Betty,  Hannah,  Alice,  Anna  and 
Jonathan  (1  air  father  1. 

I  think  it  will  be  best  to  obtain  from  Fred- 
erick A.  Haskell  the  record  of  our  immediate 
family.  My  brother  is  city  agent  for  the 
freight  department  of  the  New  York  Central 
cc  Hudson  River  R.  R.,  and  were  it  not  for 
his  modesty  and  dislike  to  prominence  lie 
•  would  be  equal  to  filling  a  high  position,  for 
while  be  is  now  yielding  to  age,  lie  has  been 
and  still  is  a  very  handsome,  dignified  man. 
and  noble  and  generous  in  character,  one  of 
whom  we  all  as  a  rare  may  be  proud  as  rep- 
resenting nobility  of  soul,  and  a  t>rpe  physic- 
ally of  perfect  manhood.  Our  grandfather, 
Solomon  Haskell,. served  in  the  Revolutionary 
war:    was    at  Ticonderoga,    Lexington,  Cam-       only  person  of  the    Haskell    blood    who  has 

idge  and  Boston.  developed     artistic    capacities     sufficient     to 

1  am  very  much  interested  in  the  coat  of-  justify  resilience  and  work  in  Paris.  Samuel 
arms  and  hope  to  sLC  it  in  a  coming  Journal  Stephen  Haskell  is  al  the  school  des  Beaux 
illustrated  with  color,  etc.*  ::  I  am  also  Arts,  in  that  center  of  civilization.  Fie  is  the 
very  anxious  to  see  the  picture  of  Rowlstone  sou  of  Samuel  C.  and  Mary  F.  Haskell  of  St- 
Castle,  and  to  know  the  authority    tor  claim-       Paul.   Minn. 

ing  it  as  the  ancient  seat  of  the  Haskell  fain-  

ilv.  From  the    letters    received    since    the   first 

Louise   Haskell  Sylvester,  issue  it  is  certain  that  a  large  number  of  our 

966  Beacon    street,    Newton  Center,  Mass.      people  belong  to  the  very  best  classes  in  the 

February  7,  1898.  Southern    States.     Jennie    Haskell    Rose    of 

Baltimore  contributes,  with   authorities    from 

Among  the  many  H.isl  ysisj.  T.      history,  some  other  modifications  of  our  name 

Haskell  of  Wellington,  Oliio,  who  has  been  derived  from  her  investigations  in  the  Con- 
Justice  and  twice  a  member  of  the  Ohio  Gen-  gressional  Library,  such  as  Askel,  Fil/.jas- 
eral  Assembly.  kalle.  etc. 


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ibbot  Godrie,  pastor  of  the  monastery 


"In  s7r,  tins  was  Followed  by  a  more  foi 
idable  attack  by  the  main  body  of  the  Dai 
in  lingland.  The  three  Kings,  Guthrii 
Oskytki.  and  Amund  who  liad  wintered 
Cambridge,  took  ship,  and  sailing  westwa 
seized  the  town  of  Wareham  in  Dorsetshi 
Alfred  (.the  Great)  made  a  treaty  with  tin 
paying  at  the  same  time  according  to  o 
account,  a  sum  of  money  and  they  vowed 
the  most  solemn  manner  thai  they  wen 
leave  his  kingdom.  This  promise  was  at  01 
broken,  for  some  of  their  horsemen  m.i 
tluir  way  into  Devonshire,  and  surprised  t 
strongholdof  Fixeter." 


Prom  the 

Of  the  Ei         li  I'd  pie  and  of  the  Kuglish 

lite    French     language    ami  ViK-ratiire,  and    Vice- 
President  l.I    the  e  1K-.  ..i    the  i'ii\    ol    New    York. 
London,  Keegaii,    I'aul,    Trench  ,v  Co,  I  1' 
Row.  isss. 

CHAPTKR   [V. 

THE  DANES  IN  KXCLANT). 
For  more  than  a  century  and  a  half  nearly 
the  whole  of  South  Britian  had  borne  the 
name  of  lingland,  and  the  nation  was  deeply 
suffering  from  the  effectsof  a  long  succession 
of  miserable  contests,  sometimes  betw  een  one 
state  and  another,  sometimes  between  ad 
verse  fractions  in  the  same  state,  having  in 
either  ease  the  rancorous  character  of  civil 
strife,  when  suddenly  they  were  attacked  by 
a  foreign  foe  whose  civilization  was  as  fai 
below  their  own  as  theirs  had  been  from  cen- 
turies previously,  below  that  of  the  con- 
quered Britons;  and  whose  successful  inva- 
sions not  only  checked  their  progress  as  a 
nation,  but  nearly  replunged  them  into  their 
original  barbarism.  These  piratical  hordes, 
called  Danes  or  Norsemen  by  the  Iinglish, 
and  Normans  by  the  French,  were  not  merely 
natives  of  Denmark,  properly  so-called,  but 
belonged  also  to  Norway,  Sweden,  and  other 
count  lies  spread  around  the  Baltic  si  a  Tin 
weie  off-shoots  of  the  great  Scandinavian 
bianch  of  Teutons  who,  under  different 
names,  conquered  and  recomposed 
the  states  ot  l'urope  on  the  downfall  of  the 
Roman  empire.  Such  of  the  Scandinavian 
tribes  as  did  not  move  to  the  south  to  estab- 
lish themselves  permanently  in  fertile  pro- 
vinces, but  remained  on  the  barren  soil  and 
bleak  regions  of  the     north,    devoted     them- 

piracy  as  a  profitable  and  I  i 
profession.  The  Saxons  themselves  had 
done  tins  in  the  fourth  and  fifth  centuries, 
and  now  in  the  ninth  century  they  were  be- 
coming the  victims  of  their  old  system,  ear- 
ned into  practicelby  their  kindred,  the  Danes. 


Swedes,  Norwegians,  and  others,  All  these 
people  were  of  the  same  rare  as  the  Saxons, 
being  an  aftei  torrent  of  the  same  fountain- 
head;  and  though  time,  and  a  change  of 
country,  religion,  and  general  mode  ol  life  on 
the  part  of  the  Iinglish,  had  made  some  dif- 
ference between  them,  the  common  resem- 
blance in  physical    appearance,  and    even  of 


lis  was  still  strong. 
i  ions  ol  t  he  Northmen, 


The  piratical  : 
though  similar  to  those  of  the  various  Saxon 
tubes  of  former  limes,  partook  ill  the  ninth 
century  rather  of  the  nature  of  our  privateer- 
in«  companies  in  time  of  war,  and  still  more 
closely  resembled  the  as  ociations  of  the  Cor- 
sairs of  the  Barbary  Coast,  who.  up  to  the 
earl)  part  of  this  century,  crossing  tin  M  d 
terranean  a- the  Danes  and  Norwegians  did 
the  German  ocean  and  the  British  channel, 
for  many  ages  plundered  every  Christian 
ship  and  country  they  could  approach.  The 
Scandinavian  governments  at  home,  such  as 
they  were,  licensed  the  depredations  and 
shared  the  spoils,  having  a  regularly  fixed 
portion  alloted  them  after  every  successful 
expedition,     t  hi  cei  tain  occasions,  w  hen  their 

governments  themselves  took  active  part,  and 
were  known  to  make  very  extensive  leagues. 
As  the  Saxons  of  old,  so  the  Danes,  the  Nor- 
wegians, and  all  the  Scandinavians  were 
familiar  with  the  sea  and  its  dangers,  and, 
the  art  of  war  was  cultivated  among  them 
far  more  extensively  than  by  any  other  na- 
tion at  that  time.  The  astonishing  success  of 
these  people  in  Kngland  and  France,  and 
latei  in  Italy  and  Sicily,  not  only  proves  their 
physical  vigor,  their  valoi  and  preseverance, 
but  also  their  military  skill  and  a  remarkable 
degree  of  intellect,  which  contrasted  strangely 
with  their  savage  instinct  and  their  innate 
brutality.  Their  religion  and  their  literature, 
some  of  which  date  back  as  far  as  the  eighth 
century,  were  subservient  to  their  ruling 
passions  for  war  and  plunder;  or,  more  pro- 
perl)  speaking,  they  were  both  east  in  the 
mould  of  these  passions,  and  stamped  with 
the  impress  of  the  national  character.  The 
blood  of  their  enemies  in  war.  and  a  rude 
hospitality,  with  a  barbarous  excess  m  drink- 
ing, were  held  to  be  the  incense  most  ac- 
ceptable to  their  god,  Woden,  who  himself 
had  been,  perhaps,  nothing  more  than  a 
mighty  slayer  and  drinker.  War  and  least- 
ings  were  the  constant  themes  of  their  skalds 
and  bards;  and  what  they  called  their  history 
recorded  little  else  than  piracy  and 
shed.  Torture  and  carnage,  greed  of  danger, 
fur)  of  destruction,  the  obstinate  and  fren- 
zied bravery  of  an  overstrung  temperament, 
and  the  unchaining  of  butcher)  instinct, 
meet  us  at  every  page  ill  the  old  Sagas, 
liven  their  ideal  woman  is  a  cold,  heartless. 
blood-thirsty  wretch.  Thus  the  daughter  of 
;,  Danish  earl,    seeing    ligil    taking    his    seat 


IO 


THE  HASKELL  GENEALOGY 


near  her,  repels  him  with  scorn,  reproaching 
him  with  "seldom  having  provided  the 
wolves  with  hot  meat,  with  never  having 
seen  tor  a  whole  autumn,  a  raven  croaking 
over  the  carnage."  lint  Egil  seized  her  and 
pacified  her  by  singing,  "I  have  marched 
with  my  bloody  sword,  ami  the  raven  has  fol- 
lowed me.  Furiously  we  fought,  the  fire  passi  d 
over  the  dwellings  of  men;  we  slept  in  the 
blood  of  those  who  kept  the  gates."  Erom 
such  table  talk,  and  such  maid's  fancies,  one 
may  judge  of  the  rest. 

Like  their  brothers,  the  Saxons,  the  Danes 
were  not  at  one  time  very  bigoted  or  very 
intolerant  to  other  modes  of  faith;  hut  when 
they  came  to  England  they  were  embittered 
by  recent  persecutions.  The  remorseless 
cruelties  practiced  by  Charlemagne  from  the 
year  772  to  803  upon  the  pagan  Saxons,  set- 
tled on  the  Rhine  and  in  Westphalia,  to 
whom  he  left  no  other  alternative  hut  death 
or  a  Christian  baptism,  and  whom  he  massa- 
cred by  thousands,  even  after  they  had  laid 
down  their  arms,  were  the  cause  of  their  fear- 
ful reaction  and  the  confirmed  idolatry  of 
that  people.  Those  that  could  escape  had 
tied  to  Jutland,  Seeland,  h'remen,  and  the 
islets  of  the  Cattcgat,  where  the  people,  still 
unconverted,  gave  a  friendly  reception  to 
brethren  suffering  in  the  cause  of  Woden. 
All  these  joined  largely  in  the  expeditions 
against  England,  and  they  treated  as  rene- 
gades the  English  who  had  forsaken  the  faith 
of  their  common  ancestors,  to  embrace  that  of 
their  deadly  enemies.  A  sort  of  religious  and 
patriotic  fanaticism  was  thus  combined  in 
the  Scandinavians  with  the  fiery  impulsive- 
ness oi  their  character,  and  an  insatiable 
thirst  for  blood  of  priests  and  monks;  they 
especially  delighted  at  pillaging  the  churches, 
anil  stabled  their  horses  ;- u  the  chapels  of  the 
palaces.  When  they  had  devastated  and 
burned  some  district  of  the  Christian  terri- 
tory; "We  have  sung  them  the  mass  of  the 
lances,"  said  they  mockingly;  "it  commenced 
in  the  morning,  and  lasted  until  night." 

In  three  days,  with  an  east  wind,  the  fleet 
of  Denmark  and  Norway,  consisting  of  two- 
sailed  vessels,  could  reach  the  south  of  I'.rit- 
ian.  The  soldiers  of  each  fleet  obeyed  in 
general  one  chief,  whose  vessel  was  distin- 
guished from  the  rest  by  some  particular 
ornament.  Tin-  samechief  commanded  when 
the  pirates,  having  landed,  marched  in  troops 
on  foot  or  on  such  horses  as  they  could  cap- 
ture. His  title  was  that  of  king;  but  he  was 
king  only  on  the  seas  and  on  the  battle  field; 
for  in  the  hour  of  the  banquet  the  whole 
troop  sat  in  a  circle,  ami  the  horns,  tilled  with 
beer,  passed  from  hand  to  hand  without  any 
distinction  of  first  man  or  last.  The  sea-king 
was  everywhere  faithfully  followed  and  zeal- 
ously obeyed,  because  he  was  always  re- 
nowned as  the  bravest  of  the  brave,  as  "one 
who  had  never  slept  under  a  smoke-dried 
roof,  who  had  never  emptied  a  cup  seated  in 


the  chimney-corner."  He  could  guide  his 
vessel  as  the  good  horseman  his  steed,  and  to 
the  prestige  ol  carnage  and  skill  were  added, 
for  him,  the  influence  created  by  superstition, 
for  he  knew  the  mystic  characters  which,  en- 
graven upon  swords,  secured  the  victory,  and 
those  which,  inscribed  on  the  poop  and  on 
the  oars,  preserved  vessels  from  shipwreck. 
Under  such  a  chief  the  men  bore  lightly 
their  voluntary  submission  and  the  weight 
of  their  mailed  armor  and  they  laughed  at 
tlu  wind  and  waves  that  failed  to  do  them 
harm.  "The  strength  of  the  tempest,"  they 
sang,  "arms  the  arm  of  the  rower:  the  storm 
is  our  servant;  it  throws  us  where  we  want 
to  go."  Thus  the  name  oi'  waking  was  only 
a  military  title,  and  had  nothing  in  common 
with  that  of  "Koenig"  meaning  "chief,"  and 
borne  by  the  numerous  petty  kings  that 
ruled  in  the  various  Scandinavian  Kingdoms. 

In  speaking  of  king  and  kingdoms  we  use 
words  of  swelling  sound  and  magnificent 
import.  Splendor,  extensive  dominion  pomp 
and  power  are  the  majestic  images  which 
arise  in  our  minds  when  we  hear  of  thrones. 
But  we  must  dismiss  from  our  thoughts  the 
fascinating  appendages  of  modern  royalty, 
and  rather  think  of  our  Indian  chiefs,  when 
we  contemplate  these  petty  sovereigns  of  the 
North.  Some  of  their  kingdoms  may  have 
equaled  an  American  county  in  extent,  but 
many  would  have  been  rivaled  by  our  towns. 
Having  neither  cities  nor  fortified  posts,  and 
only  surrounded  by  a  small  band  of  follow- 
ers, they  often  became  the  prey  of  each 
other;  some  times  even  the  victim  to  some 
coup  de  main  of  other  pirates  who  assailed 
them.  This  early  state  of  tilings  continued 
until  the  latter  part  of  the  ninth  century, 
when  Eric  in  Sweden,  Gormo  in  Denmark, 
and  Harald  Harfager  in  Norway,  subdued  all 
these  petty  kings  in  their  respective  coun 
tries  and  united  them  into  three  separate 
monarchies. 

The  second  class  of  these  high-tit  ed  indi- 
viduals were  sovereigns  who  neither  posses- 
sed country  nor  ruled  over  regular  subjei  ts, 
and  yet  tilled  the  regions  adjacent  with  mis- 
ery and  terror.  They  were  a  race  of  beings 
whom  all  Europe  beheld  with  horror.  With- 
out a  square  yard  of  territorial  property, 
without  any  towns  or  visible  people,  with  no 
wealth  but  their  ships,  no  force  but  their 
crews,  and  no  hope  but  from  their  swords, 
the  sea-kings  of  the  North  swarmed  on  the 
boisterous  ocean  and  plundered  in  every 
district  they  could  approach,  sometimes 
amassing  so  much  booty  and  enlisting  so 
many  followers  to  assault  even 

whole  provinces  for  permanent  conquest. 
They  were  generally  the  younger  sons  of 
the  kings  in  question,  the  elder  remaining  at 
.  nherit  the  government.  The  former 
were  left  to  seek  their  fortune  on  the  ocean 
and  to  wield  their  scepters  amid  the  turbu- 
lent waters.     The    consent    of    the    northern 


Till-:   HASKKL 


:xi-:.\i.of',v 


people  entitled  all  men  of  royal  descent  who 
assumed  piracy  as  a  profession  to  enjoy  the 
name  of  k i 1 1 •_; s ,  though  they  possessed  no 
property  ashore.  Hence  the  sea-kings  were 
the  kinsmen  of  the  land-sovereigns,  and  while 
the  eldest  son  succeeded  to  his  father,  the 
rest  of  the  family  hastened  like  petty  Nep- 
tiines  to  establish  their  kingdom  un  the 
waxes;  and  if  any  nt  the  former  were  ex- 
pelled from  their  inheritance  by  others,  then 
they  also  sought  a  continuance  of  their  dig- 
nity upon  the  ocean.  Their  rank,  and  espec- 
ially their  successes,  always  secured  to  them 
abundant  crews,  and  the  mischief  they  per- 
pertrated  was  immense. 

Hut  while  these  sea-kings  operated  under 
a  high-sounding  title,  there  was  another  set 
of  northern  pirates  on  the  ocean,  far  more 
ferocious,  and  much  less  disciplined,  though 
to  the  victims  it  made  very  little  difference. 
Not  only  the  children  of  kings,  but  every 
man  that  could  afford  it  equipped  ships,  and 
roamed  the  seas  to  acquire  property  by  force. 
At  the  age  of  ten  or  twelve  their  sons  were 
trained  under  military  tutors  in  all  that  could 
make  them  distinguished  pirates.  Piracy 
among  them  was  not  only  considered  the 
most  honorable  occupation,  hut  the  best  field 
for  the  harvestof  wealth;  nor  was  it  confined 
to  the  emulation  of  the  illustrious  who  pur- 
sued it;  no  one  was  respected  who  did  not 
engage  in  it,  and  did  not  return  from  sea 
with  ships  laden  with  booty.  It  was  there- 
fore well  said  of  the  Northmen,  by  one  of 
their  contemporaries,  that  they  sought  their 
food  by  their  sails  and  inhabited  the  seas. 
The  name  by  which  this  class  of  pirates  was 
known  was  Vikinge,  which  originally  meant 
"kings  of  the  bays"  for  it  was  in  the  bays 
that  they  ambushed  to  dait  upon  t'le  passing 
voyager.  The  recesses  of  the  shores  afforded 
them  a  station  of  safety  from  the  perils  of 
the  ocean,  and  of  advantage  in  their  pursuit. 
Our  bolder  navigation,  which  selects  in  pre- 
ference the  open  sea,  was  then  unusual.  In 
those  days  merchant  vessels  coasted  where 
ever  t  was  possible  and  therefore  generally 
came  in  sight  of  those  bays,  which  often 
were  full  of  this  class  of  pirates,  ready  to 
dait  upon  their  prey. 

The  ferocity  and  useless  cruelty  of  this 
race  of  beings  almost  transcends  belief.  The 
piracy  of  the  Vikings  was  an  exhibition  of 
every  species  of  barbarity.  Some  of  them 
cultivated  paroxysms  of  brutal  insanity. 
These  were  the  Bersekir,  whom  many  authors 
describe.  When  a  conflict  was  impending, 
or  a  great  undertaking  was  about  to  be 
commenced,  they  abandoned  all  nationality 
Upon  system;  they  studied  to  resemble 
wolves  or  mad  dogs,  bit  their  shields,  howled 
like  wild  beasts,  stirred  themselves  up  to  the 
utmost  frenzy,  and  then  rushed  to  every 
crime  and  horror  which  the  most  frantic  en- 
thusiasm could  perpetrate.     Their   fury    was 


an  artifice  of  battle  like  the  war  whoops  of 
the  Indians,  and  in  this, las  in  their  barbar- 
ous daring  and  cruelty,  they  much  resembled 
the  latter;  lor  the  rest,  their  leading  charac- 
teristics were  n  uch  the  same  as  those  of  the 
Saxons  three  centuries  previous. 

It  was  in  the  latter  part  of  the  eighth  cen- 
tury that  these  people  commenced  to  plague 
the  English  coasts.  This  they  kept  up  at  in- 
tervals lor  nearly  a  century,  until  at  last,  see- 
ing the  country  was  not  in  a  condition  to  re- 
sist them,  they  fitted  out  large  expeditions 
which,  in  course  of  time,  over-ran  almost  the 
entile  island,  carrying  with  them  death  and 
destruction,  and  leaving  nothing  but  ruin 
and  misery  in  their  trail.  Priest,  monk,  nun, 
youth,  old  age,  nothing  was  sacred  to  them. 
What  they  looked  for  was  gold  and  silver, 
and  they  sought  il  especially  in  the  monas- 
teries and  churches.  Xorthumbria  became  a 
waste.  What  could  not  be  removed  was  set 
on  lire,  and,  with  but  rare  exceptions,  the 
whole  Anglian  literature  perished  in  the 
flames.  All  that  could,  fled  before  the  fury 
of  the  Danes,  and  those  who  remained  re- 
verted almost  all  to  their  old  heathen  customs 
and  practices.  Civilization  went  back  three 
centuries;  men  forgot  every  art  of  peace,  and 
what  little  learning  and  culture  there  was 
among  the  people  became  extinguished,  even 
in  those  parts  which  hitherto  had  been  the 
most  enlightened. 

This  is  the  way  it  began.  One  day  in  787, 
a  body  of  men  of  unknown  race  entered,  in 
three  vessels,  a  part  on  the  eastern  coast 
where  now  is  Portland.  They  probably 
came  in  the  guise  of  traders,  as  they  were 
wont  on  such  occasions.  In  order  to  learn 
whence  they  came,  and  what  they  wanted, 
the  Saxon  magistrate  of  the  place  proceeded 
to  the  shore  where  they  had  landed.  The 
strangers  let  them  quietly  approach;  then 
surrounding  him  and  his  escort,  they  fell  sud- 
denly upon  them,  and,  after  plundering  the 
town,  returned  with  their  booty  to  their  ships, 
and  immediately  set  sail.  Six  years  after  a 
similar  robbery  took  [dace  on  the  Northum- 
brian coast,  but  on  a  much  larger  scale  Then 
the  pirates  were  not  further  heard  of  for 
many  years,  until  in  S32  and  the  year  follow- 
ing, when  they  were  seen  hovering  along 
the  southern  and  eastern  coasts  in  large  num- 
bers, making  descents  here  and  there,  and 
doing  considerable  mischief.  It  was.  how- 
ever, only  in  the  year  835  that  the  first  great 
army  of  Danish  corsairs  directed  their  course 
toward  England,  and  landed  011  the  coast  of 
Cornwall.  The  ancient  inhabitants  of  that 
country,  reduced  by  the  English  to  the  hard 
condition  of  tributaries,  joined  the  enemies 
of  their  conquerors,  either  in  the  hope  of  re- 
gaining some  small  portion  of  their  liberty,. 
or  simply  to  gratify  the  pas-ion  of  national 
revenge.  The  northern  invaders  were  re- 
pulsed, and  the  Britons  of  Cornwall  remained 


.1.  GENEALOGY 


wards,  other  fleets  brought  the  Danes  lo  the 
eastern  coast  in  such  numbers  that  no  force 
could  prevent  them  from  penel  rating  into  t  he 
heart  ol  England.  They  ascended  the  great 
rivers  until  they  found  a  commodious  station, 
then  they  quitted  their  barks,  and  moored 
them  <>r  drew  thcin  aground;  then,  scattering 
themselves  over  the  neighboring  country, 
they  carried  off  all  the  beasts  of  burden,  and, 
as  the  chronicles  of  that  day  express  it,  from 
mariners  they  became  horsemen.  The)  at 
first  confined  themselves  to  plundering  and 
retired  immediately,  leaving  only  some  mili- 
tary posts  and  small  iu trenched  camps  on  the 
coast  to  cover  their  speedy  return;  but  soon, 
changing  their  policy,  they  lixcd  their  resi- 
dence in  the  country,  and  became  masters  of 
the  soil  and  of  the  inhabitants,  driving  the 
English  population  of  the  northeast  toward 
the  south  western  part  of  the  island,  as  the 
Saxons  had  formerly  driven  the  British  pop- 
ulation from  the  British  channel  to  the  oppo- 
site sea.  A.   I).  83S  to  865. 

In  the  year  866,  the  most  numerous  fleet 
that  had  ever  sailed  from  Denmark  on  a 
distant  expedition  left  for  England,  under 
tl.e  command  of  eight  kings  and  twenty  jarls, 
who  landed  their  troops  on  the  southern 
pai  t  of  the  coast  appertaining  to  East  Anglia. 
Unable  to  repel  so  formidable  an  armament 
the  people  of  that  country  received  the 
Danes  in  a  pacific  manner.  The  latter  pro- 
fited thereby  in  acquiring  supplies  of  provi- 
sions, collecting  horses,  and  awaited  rein- 
forcements from  beyond  the  sea;  afterward, 
when  they  felt  assured  of  success,  they 
marched  upon  York,  the  capital  of  North- 
umbria,  totally  defeating  the  Saxons,  and 
devastating  with  lire  and  sword  the  country 
they  traversed  C867).  Having  made  them- 
selves masters  of  a  district  north  of  the 
Humher,  and  being  assured  by  messengers 
of  the  submission  of  the  rest  of  the  North- 
umbrians they  resolved  on  maintaining  their 
conquest.  They  garrisoned  York  and  the 
principal  towns,  apportioned  estates  to  their 
companions,  without  any  regard  to  the  rights 
of  the  native  population,  and  offered  an 
asylum  to  men  o(  all  r.uiks  who  should  ar- 
rive from  the  Scandinavian  countries  to  join 
the  new  colony.  Thus  Northumberland 
ceased   to  be  a  Saxon   kingdom;  it   became  the 

rallying  point  of  the  Danes,  who  contem- 
plated the  conquest  of  the  southern  portion 
of  England.  Aftei  three  years  spent  in  their 
preperations  the  invading  army  set  out.  Un- 
der the  conduct  of  their  eight  kings,  they  de- 
scended the  1  lumber  as  tar  as  I.indescy, 
where,  having  disembarked,  they  marched 
from  north  to  south,  plundered  cities,  massa 
ere.1  the  inhabitants,  and,  with  their  national 
fanaticism,  they  destroyed  by  lire  the  Chris- 
tian churches  and  monasteries,  and  all  books 
and  manuscripts  they   found    in   them.      East 


Anglia,  being  in  turn  completely  subjected, 
became,  like  Northumbria.a  Danish  kingdom, 
and  a  point  01  destination  lor  all  emigrant  ad- 
venturers from  the  north.  The  Saxon  king 
was  repl   ced  a  king,  and   the   Saxon 

population,  reduced  to  a  state  of  demi-servi- 
tude,  lost  all  property  iu  their  territory,  and 
thenceforth  tilled  the  land  for  the  Danish 
conquerors.  The  country  was  now  overrun 
by  the  latter,  and  of  the  eight  kingdoms  Inst 
founded  by  the  Saxons  and  the  Angles  there 
■  ■!  but  one,  that  ..I  Wessex,  which  ex- 
tended from  the  mouth  of  the  Thames  to  the 
British  channel. 

In  the  year  S71  Ethelred,  king  of  Wessex, 
died  of  wounds  received  in  a  combat  fought 
with  the  Danes  who  had  passed  the  Thames, 
and  invaded  his  territory.  lie  Iefl  several 
children;  but  the  choice  of  the  nation  fell  on 
his  brother  Alfred,  a  young  prince  twenty- 
two  years  old,  wh<sc  courage  ami  military 
skill  inspired  the  Saxons  with  the  greatest 
hopes.  Twice  alread)  In-  had  succeeded, 
either  by  arms  or  negotiation,  in-relieving  his 
kingdom  from  the  presence  of  the  Dan 
repulsed  several  attempts  to  invade  his  south- 
ern provinces  by  sea,  and  foi  seven  years 
maintained  the  boundary  linesof  the  Thames. 
It  is  probablethat  nootherarmy  oi  the  Danes 
would  ever  have  overpassed  thai  boundary, 
had  the  kin-  of  Wessex  and.  his  people 
been  united;  but  there  existed  between 
them  germs  of  discord  of  a  peculiar  nature. 

Kin-  . Mired  was  more  learned,  than  any  of 
his  subjects.  While  yet  young  he  had  visited 
the  southern  countries  of  Europe,  and  closely 
observed  their  manners,  customs,  and  institu- 
tions; he  w  as  conversant  with  theii  languages, 
and  with  most  of  the  writings  of  antiquity. 
This  superiority  of  knowledge  1  reated  111  t he- 
Saxon  king  a  certain  degree  of  contempt  lor 
lie-  nation  he  governed.  He  had  small  re- 
spect foi  the  information  or  intelligence  of 
the  great  national  council,  which  were  called 
"The  Assembly  of  Wise  Men."  Full  of  the 
ideas  of  absolute  power  which  he  had  so 
often  read  of  iu  Roman  writers.  lie  was  bent 
on  political  reforms,  and  framed  many  plans 
better  in  themselves,  perhaps,  than  the  an- 
cient Anglo  Saxon  practices  the)  were  in- 
tended to  replace,  but  wanting  in  that  essen- 
tial requisite,  the  sanction  of  the  people,  w  ho 
neither  understood  nordesired  these  changes. 
Tradition  has  vaguely  preserved  some  severe 
features  ol  . Mind's  government; 
after  his  death  men  used  to  speak  of  the  ex- 
cessive rigor  he  applied  to  the  punishment 
of  prevaricators  and  dishonest  judges.  A1-. 
though  this  severity   ha  ject    the 

good  of  the  nation,  it  was  far  from  agreeable 
to  a  people  who,  at  that  time,  valued  freedom 
ol  existence  more  than  regularity  in  the  ad- 
ministration of  public  affairs. 

Thus  when,  seven  years  alter  his   election. 
this  learned   king,  unconsciously  odious,  hav- 


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GENEALOGY, 


ing  to  repel  a  formidable  invasion  of  Danes, 
summoned  his  people  to  defend  the  land,  he 
was  terrified  at  finding  his  subjects  but  little 
disposed  to  obey  him,  and  even  careless  about 
Hie  common  danger.  In  vain  did  Alfred 
send  through  the  towns  and  hamlets  his  mes- 
sengers of  war:  few  men  came,  ami  the  king 
was  left  almost  alone  with  a  small  number  of 
faithful  followers  and  friends  whom  he  en- 
chanted with  his  learning.  Favored  by  this 
indifference  of  the  nation  for  t  heir  chief,  the 
enemy  made  a  rapid  progress.  Alfred  then. 
feeling  that  he  was  deserted  by  his  people, 
deserted  them  in  his  turn,  and  the  Danish' 
army  entered  the  kingdom  nearly  unopposed, 
many  of  the  inhabitants  embarked  on  the 
western  coast  to  seek  refuge  either  in  Caul 
or  on  the  island  of  Erin,  which  the  Saxons 
called  Ireland;  the  rest  submitted  to  pay  trib- 
ute and  to  labor  for  the  Danes.  But  it  was 
not  long  before  they  found  the  evils  of  the 
conquest  a  thousand  times  worse  than  the 
severity  of  Alfred's  reign,  which  alone  could 
have  saved  them.  Thus  they  regretted  their 
former  condition,  and  even  the  despotism  of 
a  king  who  ruled  them  with  an  iron  hand, 
but   who  was  horn  among  themselves 

Alfred,  too,  reflected  on  his  misfortunes 
and  meditated  on  the  means  of  saving  his 
people,  if  it  were  possible,  and  of  regaining 
their  favor.  Having  collected  a  few  friends 
about  him,  he  intrenched  himself  on  a  small 
island  near  the  confluenceof  the  rivers  Thone 
and  1'arret.  There  he  led  the  hard  and  rug- 
ged life  reserved,  in  every  conquered  country, 
lor  such  of  the  vanquished  as  are  too  proud 
for  slavery — that  of  a  freebooter  in  the 
woods,  morasses,  and  mountain  defiles.  Such 
as  were  tired  of  the  foreign  yoke,  or  had 
been  guilty  of  high  treason,  in  defending 
their  family  and  property  against  the  con- 
querors, came  and  put  themselves  under  the 
command  of  the  unknown  chief,  who  dis- 
dained to  share  the  general  servitude.  After 
six  mouths  of  a  warfare  of  strata-cms,  sur- 
prises, and  of  night  combats,  the  partisan 
leader  resolved  to  declare  himself,  to  call  on 
the  people  of  the  whole  western  country,  and 
to  make  an  open  attack,  under  the  Anglo- 
Saxon  standard,  on  the  principal  camp  of  the 
Danes.  Before  giving  the  decided  signal, 
Alfred  wished  to  observe  in  person  the  posi- 
tion of  the  foreigners.  He  entered  their 
camp  in  the  dress  of  a  harper,  and  diverted 
the  Danish  army  with  his  Saxon  songs,  the 
language  of  which  differed  but  little  from 
their  own.  He  went  from  tent  to  tent,  and 
on  his  return,  changing  his  character  and 
occupation,  he  sent  messengers  through,  all 
the  surrounding  country,  and  assigned  as  a 
place  of  meeting  for  all  Saxons  who  would 
arm  and  light,  a  spot  a  lew  miles  distant 
from  the  enemy's  camp.  During 
cessive  days  armed  men  arrived  i  i  every 
quarter,  one  by  one,  or  in  small  I  at  the 


place  appointed.  Some  rumors  of  this  agita- 
tion reached  the  camp  of  the  Danes,  but  as 
there  was  not  a  single  traitor  among  the  Sax- 
ons, their  information  was  uncertain.  It  was 
not  long,  however,  before  they  saw  the  ban- 
ner of  Wesscx  bearing  down  on  them.  Al- 
fred attacked  their  redoubts  at  their  weakest 
sides,  drove  out  all  the  Danes,  and  as  the 
Saxon  Chronicle  expresses  it,  "remained 
master  of  the  field  ol  carnage." 

Once  dispersed  the  Danes  did  not  again 
rally,  and  Cuthrum,  their  king,  did  what 
those  of  his  nation  often  did  when  in  pel il — 
he  promised  that,  if  the  victors  would  relin- 
quish their  pursuit  of  him,  he  and  his  men 
would  be  baptised,  and  would  retire  to  their 
territory  of  blast  Anglia  to  dwell  there  in 
peace.  The  Saxon  king,  who  was  not  strong 
enough  to  carry  on  the  war  to  the  utmost,  ac- 
cepted     these       proposals      lor     peace      (879). 

Cuthrum  and  the  other  pagan  captains  swore 

first  on  a  bracelet  consecrated  t'>  their  gods 
and  then  on  the  cross,  that  they  would  in  all 
good  faith  receive  baptism.  King  Alfred 
officiated  as  spiritual  father  to  the  Danish 
chief,  who,  putting  the  neophytical  white- 
robe  over  his  armor,  departed  with  the 
wreck  of  his  army  for  the  land  whence  he 
hail  come,  ami  where  he  engaged  for  the  fu- 
ture to  remain.  The  limits  of  the  two  popu- 
lations were  fixed  by  a  definite  treaty  sworn 
to,  as  the  preamble  set  forth,  by  Alfred,  King; 
Guthrum,  King;  all  the  Anglo-Saxon  wise 
men,  and  all  the  Danish  people.  These 
limits  were,  on  the  south,  the  course  of  tin- 
Thames  as  far  as  the  Lea,  which  discharges 
its  waters  into  the  main  stream  not  far  from 
London;  on  the  northeast,  the  Onse  and  the 
great  high  road  constructed  by  the  Britons 
and.  rebuilt  by  the  Romans,  which  the  Sax- 
ons called  Weathlingastreet,  "the  road  of  the 
sons  Waethla."  All  those  portions  of  ling- 
land  which  were  not  occupied  by  the  Danes 
thenceforth  formed  one  single  state,  carrying 
out  practically  the  original  plan  of  Egbert; 
and  thus  disappeared  forever  the  ancient  di- 
vision of  the  English  people  into  various 
peoples,  corresponding  in  number  to  Un- 
hands of  armed  emigrants  which  had  incess- 
antly came  from  the  islands  and  coasts  of 
Continental  Europe,  and  dispossessed  the 
Britons. 

And  now  in  turn  the  same  bad  faith  was 
shown  them  by  the  Danes,  who,  at  the  first 
appearance  as  a  licet  of  pirates  on  the  coast, 
broke  their  oath  without  hesitation,  and 
saluted  the  newcomers  as  brothers,  with 
whom  they  entered  at  once  upon  new  expe- 
ditions against  the  Southern  English,  and 
kept  doing  so  ever  after  on  every  chance  or 
pretext,  Such  were  the  people  who.forwell 
nigh  two  centuries,  made  Kngland  the  object 
of  their  incessant  depredations,  hovering  Inst 
on  the  coast- as  mere  pirates,  making  descents 


H  ASK  KM-  C.KXKAI.OGY. 


now  at  one  point,  then  at  another,  through- 
out the  whole  circuit,  and  finally  establishing 
themselves  permanently  in  the  heart  of  the 
kingdom,  and  sweeping  it  in  all  directions 
with  lire  and  sword,  until  at  last  they  even 
succeeded  in  placing  their  own  king  upon 
the  Knglish  throne.  Such  a  state  of  things 
was  necessarily  fatal  to  the  progress  of  civili- 
sation and  with  it  too  the  language;  for 
though  the  Danes  of  the  tenth  century  were 
no  longer  the  low  pirates  of  a  century  pre- 
vious, and  though  even  during  the  twenty 
years  of  the  reign  of  Canute  the  country  en- 
joyed in  every  way  more  of  the  advantages 
of  good  government  than  it  bad  done  in  any 
previous  period  of  the  same  length,  yet  this 
very  state  of  peace  and  relative  prosperity 
was  again  prejudicial  to  the  vernacular  Kng- 
lish by  favoring  a  further  admixture  of 
words  and  phrases  from  the  dialect  of  the 
Swedes,  Danes,  N  irwegians,  and  other 
Scandinavian  tribes  then  settled  permanently 
and  in  great  numbers  on  the   island. 

As  the  life  of  Ragmar  Lodbrog  had  dis- 
turbed the  peace  of  many  regions  of  Kurope. 

his  deatli  became  the  source  of  peculiar  evil 
to  Ktlgland.  When  his  sons  heard  of  his 
death,  in  the  prison  in  Northumbria,  they  de- 
termined on  revenge. 

Their  transient  hostilities  as  sea-kings  were 
laid  aside  for  the  gratification  of  this  passion; 
and  as  their  father's  fame  was  the  conversa- 
tion and  pride  of  the  north,  they  found  that 
wherever  they  spread  news  of  his  fate,  and 
their  own  resolution  to  avenge  it,  their  feel- 
ings were  applauded,  and  auxiliaries  pro 
cured  to  join  them,  from  every  part.  Hands 
of  warriors  confederated  from  every  region 
for  this  vindictive  object.  Jutes,  Swedes, 
Norwegians,  Danes.  Rusians,  and  others;  all 
the  fury  and  all  the  valor  of  the  north  as- 
sembled for  the  expedition,  while  none  of 
the  Anglo  Saxon  kings  suspected  the  pre- 
parations. 

Right  kings  and  twenty  earls,  the  children, 
relatives,  and  associates  of  Ragnar  were  its 
leaders.  The  kings  were  liaiscg.  Halfdene, 
liignar,  I'bba,  C.uthrams.  Oskitel,  Aiiiund 
ami  Howls.  (Al.  liev.  93.)  Simeon  adds  to 
the  kings,  Sidea,  with  a  jail  of  that  name. 
1  I'rena  and   Herald,  p     14.) 

'Their  armament  assembled  without  molest- 
ation, and  when  it  had  become  numerous 
enough  to  promise  success  to  this  adventure, 
Halfdene,  Inguar,  and  Hubba,  three  of  Rag- 
nar's  sons,  assumed  the  command,  sailed  out 
of  the  Baltic,  and  conducted  it  safely  to  the 
Knglish  coasts. 

By  some  error  in  the  pilotage,  or  accident 
of  weather,  oi  actual  policy,  it  passed  North- 
umbria, and  anchored  oil  the  shores  of  Kast 
Anglia. 

Ethelred  was  scarcely  seated  on  his  brother's 
throne,  before  the  great   confederacy   began 


to  arrive.  It  found  the  country  in  a  state 
auspicious  to  an  invasion. 

Four  distinct  governments  divided  its  nat- 
ural force,  w  hose  narrow  policy  saw  nothing 
but  triumph  and  safety  in  the  destruction  of 
each  other.  Ouv  of  these,  the  peculiar  ob- 
ject of  the  hostility  of  the  north,  was  plunged 
in  a  civil  warfare. 

of  the  Anglo-Saxon  governments,  the 
kingdom  of  Northumbria  ha  1  been  always 
the  most  perturbed. 

Usurper  murdering  usurper,  is  the  prevad- 
ing  accident.  A  record  of  ghastly  monarchs 
pass  swiftly  along  the  page  of  historv  as  «c 
gaze;  and  scarcely  was  the  sword  ol  the  as- 
sassin sheathed  before  it  was  drawn  against 
its  master,  and  he  was  carried  to  the  sepul- 
chre which  he  had  just  closed  upon  another. 

In  this  manner,  during  the  last  century 
and  a  half,  no  fewer  than  seventeen  chiefs 
hurled  each  other  from  this  joyless  throne, 
and  the  deaths  of  the  greatest  numbei  were 
accompanied    by    hetacombs   of   their    friends. 

When  the  northern  fleet  suddenly  ap- 
peared off  Kast  Anglia,  such  sanguinary 
events  were  still  disturbing  Northumbria. 
Osbert  had  been  four  years  expelled  by  1.11a 
from  the  throne  which  he  had  usurped  from 
another,  and  at  this  juncture  was  formidable 
enough  to  dare  his  rival  again  to  the  ambiti- 
ous field. 

The  Danish  chieftains  who  first  landed, 
did  iK. l  at  once  rush  to  their  destined  prey. 
Whether  accident  or  policy  had  occasioned 
them  to  disembark  in  Kast  Anglia,  they  made 
it  a  beneficial  event,  Awing  the  country  by 
a  force  which  the  hinds  had  never  rafted 
from  Denmark  before,  they  quietly  passed 
the  winter  in  theircamp,  collecting  provisions 
and  inviting  their  friends.  They  demanded 
a  supply  of  horses  from  the  king,  who  com- 
plied to  their  recpuest,  and  mounted  the  great- 
est part  of  their  army,  lie  attempted  iro 
enmity;  he  suffered  them  to  enjoy  their  win- 
try feasts  unmolested;  no  alliance  with  the 
other  Saxon  kingdoms  was  made  during  tire 
interval:  each  state  looked  on  with  hope,  th  it 
the  collected  temptest  was  to  burst  upon  an- 
other; and  as  the  menaced,  government  was  a 
rival,  nothing  but  advantage  was  foreseen 
from  its  destruction. 

The  northern  kings  must  have  content 
plated  this  behavior  with  all  the  satisfaction 
and  contempt  of  meditative  mischief  and 
conscious  superiority.  The  Northumbrian 
Usurpers  at  last  sheathed,  though  tardily,  the 
swords  of  contending  ambition;  and.  on  the 
advice  <if  their  nobles,  united  For  their  mu- 
tual defence  and  the  general  safety. 

The  invaders,  though  in  many  lands,  like 
the  Grecian  host  before  Troy,  yet  submitted 
to  the  predominance  of  [ngwar  and  I'bba, 
two  of  the    sons  of    Ragnar.     Of   these  two, 


(  To  Be  Continued.) 


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Many  valuable  suggestions   have   been   re-  edly   send  a  copy  of    it  to  tin 

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Herald,  and   from  George   B.   Haskell  ol  the  He  makes  a  suggestion  wli 

same   city.     George    B.    Haskell    informs  us  extremely  pertinent,  that  tin    [on 

that   the  late    William  O.  Haskell   who    pub  hereafter   have  a  department   of  birt 

lished  the  genealogical  tree,  said  that  the  first  riages  and  deaths  as   they    hereaftt 

William  came  over  in   the  ship   Arabella  or  confined  to  the  family  name  01  blood 

Arbclla,  but  lie  says    Mint     he    has     worked  makes  some  other  suggestions  t 

hours  on  lists  of  early  immigrants,  early  voy-  terest  which  will  be    dealt    with    lat 

ages,  etc..  with   such   facilities  as  the    Boston  Board  of  Direction  of  the    Journal   1 

libraries    afford,     without      establishing     the  cided  that  with  the  March  issue  the; 

point  to  his  satisfaction.      He  hopes  that   the  tablish  a  department  of  births,  marri 

publication  of  the  Journal  may   lead  to  the  deaths,  and  each    of   cur   sul 

recovery  of  tin    MSS.,  ol  family  history   com-  take  due  notice  thereof. 
piled    by    the    late  Charles    Haskell  as  men- 
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last  issue.     Mr.  George   B.  Haskell   has  read  our  last  issue,  is  now  in    San    I'ranci 

the  will  of  the  first  William  and  will  undoubt-  her  husband. 


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All  Kinds  of  Sausages  a  Specialty   .  . 

S.  E.  Cor.  Oak  and  Scott  Sts. 

Hotels,    Boarding    Houses    and    Families  Suppled  at  the   Lowest   Rates.     Goods 
Delivered  Free  of  Charge  to  any  part  of  the  City. 


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Attorney  and  ....  |[j 

I  Counselor  at-L, aw. 

3           Admiralty.  Probate  ami  Land  Matters 
I  N^^ 'raC,ifC- 

134G  Market  Street  $ 

5     <y.l>  Market  Sti  relc.  Mil 

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ADVERTISEMENT. 

The  Haskhli.  Journal  has  made  special 
arrangements  with  one  of  the  best  steel  die 
cutters  and  engravers  in  the  United  States, 
and  as  well  with  a  designer,  and  is  prepared 
to  furnish  members  of  the  Haskell  family 
anything  in  that  line  tlmt  may  he  desired. 
Special  prices  are  made  as  follows: 

For  a  steel  die  of  the  crest    for   stationary; . 
"on  a  mount   an    apple   tree    fructed,  with  a 
crest  motto   fructus'    and    the    arrow,"   eight 
dollars. 

For  a  plain  engraving  of  the  coat  of  arms 
and  crest,  the  arms  either  vair  argent  et  sable, 
or  charged  with  the  Osbern  bend  and  fesse, 
but  without  supporters,  but  with  the  motto, 
eight  dollars. 

Same  as  above  but  without  supporters,  two 
leopards  rampant  regardant,  and  with  the 
mantlings,  ten  dollars.      "\ 

A  large  size  coat  of  arms  complete,  suitable 
for  framing,  either  with  or  without  the  Os- 
bern charge  and  with  both  mottoes,  done  in 
gold  silver  and  colors,  twenty-five  dollars,  all 
hand  work. 

As  each  of  these  mottoes  are  questions  of 
hand  work,  orders  cannot  be  filled  until  at 
least  twenty  days  after  receipt  of  the  money 
therefor,  which  invariably  must  be  paid  in 
advance. 

Serd  all  orders  to  the  Journal  office. 


BEN.    B.   HASKELL 
Attorney  and  Counselor-at-Law 


409  CALIFORNIA  ST. 


SAN  FRANCISCO.  CAL. 


Holmes  Book  Co., 

1 1 49  Market  street 
1 155  Market  street 

.   .  «ml  704   Mission  Street,  San  FrftBclsco,  Cat. 

Being  Antiqnarinn  book  dealers  we  arc  prepared 
to  take  orders,  and  to  main-  searches  for  any  book 
that  may  be  required;  We  can  furnish  b<x>ks  on 
genealogy  and  Haskell  History,  and  any  and  every 
book  mentioned  In  the  Haskell  Journal. 

Seventy-five  thousand  volnmes  in  stock. 

All  books,  old  and  new,  bongnt;  sold  and  exchanged. 

A  full  line  of  Law,  Medical  and  Text  Hooks. 

Correspondence  solicited. 

The  Ilaskells  of  the  Pacific  Coast 
.   .   .   are  requested  to  remember 

A.  &  J.  Levin, 

Stationery, 
Pocket  Books, 
Cutlery, 
Toilet  Sundries. 
1332  MARKB'r  Street. 

Opp.  Odd  Fellows  Halt.  Sin  Francisco. 

BON-TON    MARKET 

910-912  Valencia  St.  near  20th 

H.  C.  FLAGEOLLET,^— "^ 

DJSAtER  ix 

Beef,  Pork,  Mutton.  Lamb,  Veal,  Tonjnie, 
Sausage,  Corned  Beef,  Etc. 

Telephone  <iO/5<>. 


J.  Q.  HASKELL, 

Architect  and  Superintendent, 

Fellow  of  the 

AMERICAN  INSTITUTE  OF  ARCHITECTS. 

and  the  KANSAS  ASSOCIATION  OF  ARCHITFCTS. 

Established  at  Lawrence  1857. 
Removed  tu  Tojieku  ns  Haskell  St  Wood  In  1879. 
Thirty-nine  years  of  continuous  and  successful  practice. 
The  oldest  office  in  the  State. 

No\,   >t  Lawrence.  Kansas. 

S.  A.  HASKELL," 

Ladies',  Children's  and  Infants' 
Furnishing  Goods, 

Fancy  Work  and  Notions 

304  Main  street,  Tainesville,  Ohio. 

A.  DI  NOLA 

Pharmacist:     Twenty  Years    Here 

1249  MARKET  ST.  near  9th  SAN  FRANCISCO. 


Golden  Gate 


ffice  .  . 


10   SIXTH  STREET, 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 

W.  J.  WESTPHAL, 
<^    Prop. 

Watches  and  Jewelry  at  Lowest  Rates 
of  Interest. 

E.  L.  MULLIGAN,  M.  D., 

Office  and  Residence. 
1602  Sacramento  St., 

N.  W.  Cor.  Larlcln.  Tel  Bast  784 

Hours:   12  to  3.  daily. 
(Refers  to  Mr.  Burnette  G.  Haskell.) 

CALIFORNIA  WINES 

And  the  Very  Best. 

GUNOL,  ACH 

13  and  15  City  Hall  Square 

SAN  FRANCISCO. 


HASKELL'S 

WHEAT 
FLAKES 

Made  from  Choice  and  Thoroughly 
Cleaned  Wtyte  Wr;eat. 

HASKELL'S  WHEAT    FLAKES  arc  a  preparation  of  white 


wheat,  from  which  the  outer  brand  fibre,  of  a 
woody  nature  and  impossible  of  digestion,  has 
been  removed  leaving  a  food  composed  of  the 
wholesome  and  nutritious  element  of  the  grain, 
and  the  unwholesome  and  indigestible  ones 
eliminated 

It  is  then  crushed  to  make  it  easily  prepared 
for  the  table,  and  this  crushing  process  makes 
it  soft  and  tender  and  easy  to  cook. 

It  is  especially  recommended  and  adapted 
to  persons  of  weak  digestion,  to  invalids  and  to 
)  small  children,  containing  as  it  does,  all  of  the 

health  giving  qualities  of  the  grain,  easily  di- 
gestible and  highly  nourishing. 

4*  *$>*$*  4*  4* 
P-parea  *  W.   H.   HASKELL  &  CO., 

Cereal  TYiillers. 

TOLRDO,  OHIO. 
Ask  your  Grocer  for  it  and  insist  upon  his  ordering  it. 


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HASKELL  JOURNAL 

A  Monthly  Magazine 


r-v.  i. 


SAN  FRANCISCO,  CAL.,  MARCH,  r8tf. 

T/\BLE    OF*    CONTENTS 
Biography  of  E.  B.  Haskell, 
Letters  from  E.  B.  Haskell, 
Aunt  Hitty  Haskell,  - 

Wendell  Phillips'  Address, 
William  Haskell's  Genealogy.     TJ.  G.  H. 
A  Personal  Narrative.     E.  W.  H. 
The  New  Bedford  People.     L.  B.  H. 
A  Genealogical  Suggestion.     F.  W.  H.     - 
Editorials,    -----. 
A  Sketch.    J.  P.  C, 
Joseph  T.  Haskell,  - 
An  Earthly  Paradise,  - 

Death  Notices,        - 

Continuation  of  Genealogy,  -  -  j 

Revolutionary  Officers,       - 


No.  3. 


TWO  DOLLARS  PER  YEflR. 


50c  J\   COPY, 


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LASTUFKA  BROS., 

Wholesale  and  Retail  Dealers  in  and  manufacturers  of 

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Spurs,  Boots,  Whips,  Blankets,  '  *p> 

Carriages.  Buggies,  Carts  and  *§>*§>*§>*§>*§>*§> 

i|y  Wagons,  etc.    A  full  stock  and  & 


Prices  to  suit  the  times. 


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We  have  a  large  stock  of  Klondike  goods,  such  as  sleds,  dog    harness,  pack    saddl  es 
sleeping  bags,  gloves,  shoulder  straps,  blankets  and  woolen-lined  hoods. 

Main  Store:  37  Harket  St.,  nr  Steuart 
Branch  Store  and  Factory:  1575  Market  St.,  nr  12th 

Correspondence  solicited.  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

RANGES  AND  FURNACES 

The  Wolterstorff-Haskell  Range  and  furnace  Co., 


Calls  the  attention  OF  EVERY  HASKELL  IN  THE  UNION  to  its  "Commander"  wrought 
Steel  Ranges,  Tea  and  Coffee  Urns,  Bake  Ovens,  Jacket  Kettles,  Steel  Broilers,  Warming 
Closets,  Heating  Furnaces,  Stoves,  Heaters,  Steam  Carving  Tables,  Laundry  Stoves,  Steam 
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Cutters,  Egg  Beaters,  Baking  Pans,  Ice.,  Cream  Freezers,  Cleavers,  Ice  Chisels,  Chafing 
Dishes,  etc.,  etc.,  all  of  the  Latest  ~nd  Most  Modern  Kind.  Sure  to  give  Satisfaction.  Prices 
beneath   Competition.     Send  for   Circulars. 

186  TO  188  EAST  SIXTH  ST. 

St.  Paul,  Minn. 
(The  largest  establishment  in  the  West.) 


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Diamonds, 

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STERLING  SILVER  AND  PLATED  WARE. 

Known  to  the  Pacific  Coast  Trade  for  Twenty  Years. 
115     KEARNY    5T.  San   Francisco 


THE 


HASKKLL  JOURNAL 


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EDWIN  BRADBURY  HASKELL. 


Edwin  Bradbury  ILi 


One  of  the  most pleasingpersonalitiesin  the 
Haskell  family,  one  of  the  r.iost  successful  of 
all  our  people,  probably  the  richest  of  our 
race,  not  alone  in  money  but  in  intellect,  is 
Edwin  Bradbury  Haskell,  the  editor  and 
owner  ol  the  Boston  Herald  and  connected 
financially  ami  literarily  with  half  a  dozen 
other  leading  journals  of  the    United    States. 


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Parker  Pillsbury,  one  of  the  Old  Guard  of 
the  abolitionist  people,  has  also  said  concern- 
ing him  privately  that  his  sterling  moral 
worth  was  equal  to  his  shining  mentality. 
■  I  do  not  know  Mr.  Haskell  personally,  but 
1  have  followed  his  career  for  a  number  of 
years  and  have  read  the  Herald  with  exceed- 
ing pleasure.  Ami  in  [877  ami  ';S  1  remem- 
ber that  I  clipped  out  and   put    in    my  scrap 

1 k  a  scries  ol  articles  from  him    called  the 

"Adventures orthe Scribbler  Family  Abroad," 
which  have  since  then  been  to  me  a  source 
of  continual  pleasure.  Mark  Twain's  "Inno- 
cents Abroad,"  and  his  "Tramp  Abroad,"  and 
his  new  hook,  so  much  as  I  have  seen  of  it, 
have  not  given  me  more  pleasure  than  I  still 
derive  from  my  scrap  hook  where  1  read 
about  the  "Scribbler  Family." 

As  I  said  before  1  do  not  know  Mr.  Has- 
kell personally,  but  the  editor  of  the  Journal 
has  requested  me,  without  consultation  with 
him,  to  w  rite  this  little  article  upon  his  career, 
and  from  the  material  in  the  hands  of  the 
editor,  and  from  such  other  data  as  I  gather 
from  the  libraries  and  current  journals,  I  be- 
lieve that  1  can  say  something  that  will  ena- 
ble the  rest  of  our  people  to  understand  what 
manner  of  man  he  is.  As  near  as  I  can  as- 
certain Mr.  Haskell  was  born  August  24,  1837, 
at  l.ivcrmorc,  Maine,  his  father  being  Moses 
Greenleaf  Haskell,  and  his  mother  the  beau- 
tiful and  accomplished  Rosilla,  daughter  of 
Captain  l'eter  Haines.  Every  person  famil- 
iar with  the  history  of  Maine  knows  that 
Captain  Haines  emigrated  from  New  Hamp- 
shire to  the  latter  state  al  the  end  of  last  cen- 
tury ;  to  be  exact  in  1795.  The  Haines  fam- 
ily have  intermarried  more  than  once  with 
the  llaskells  and  that  is  good,  both  for  them 
and  us. 

At  even  the  early  age  of  seventeen  Mr. 
Haskell  began  to  devote  hims.df  to  a  literary 
life.  Up  to  this  time  he  had  no  particular 
education  except  an  Academic  one  at  Kent's 
Hill  Seminary  where  he  put  in  considerable 
time  in  industriously  preparing  for  college. 
But  circumstances  made  it  impossible  for  him 
to  pursue  the  pilaus  outlined  and  he  entered 
the  oflice  of  the  Portland  Advertiser  edited 
then  by  one  of  the  brightest  men  in  Ameri- 
can   journalism,  Henry  Carter. 

Here  he  learned  to  be  a  first  class  journey- 
man printer  and  went  the  rounds  of  the 
country  as  people  did  in  those  days:  journey- 
ing from  Maine  to  Baton  Rouge  and  New 
Orleans;  he  finally  returned  to  Boston  and 
accepted  a  situation  upon  the  Saturdav  Even- 
/./.-  ( ;„:,■//,: 

In  the  spring  of  1S57  lie  went  to  work  up- 
on the  Uoston  Herald,  and  so  effective  and 
careful  was  Ins  work  that  in  iSfio  he  was 
added  t,,  the  editorial  stall'. 

IK,  li,  mid  was  then  owned  and  managed 
by  Col.  K.  C.  Bailey,  a  man  of  quick  and  line 
perception  and  exceedingly  acute  111 


judgment,  He  quickly  discovered  that  pe- 
culiar characteristic  of  Ml.  Haskell's  which 
all  newspaper  people  understand,  "the  sense 
for  news,  the  ability  to  know  what  is  news 
and  what  is  not."  Mr.  Ilaskdl  remained  in 
this  position  upon  the  editorial  staff  until 
1865,  conducting  the  paper  throughout  the 
war  with  signal  and  splendid  ability.  At 
that  time  himself  and  some  others  bone  lit  tin- 
paper  of  Cob  Bailey,  and  Mr.  Haskell  was 
then  installed  as  editor-ill  chief,  a  position 
which  he  held  uninterruptedly  until  October, 
1SS7. 

States  appreciate  tile  great  ability  with 
which  the  Herald  has  been  and  still  is  con- 
ducted under  Mr.  Haskell's  direction,  It  is 
not  a  yellow  journal.  It  is  not  a  partisan 
sheet.  It  is  calm,  careful,  conservative  and 
pure.  When  VOU  see  it  in  the  Herald  you 
know  that  it  is  so.  The  Herald  has  been  al- 
ways an  independent  publication,  speaking 
for  the  great  mass  of  the  intelligent  people  of 
New  England,  and  not  partisan  in  any  sense 
ot  the  word.  It  is  a  conservative  authority 
and  [lower  in  the  State   of  Massachusetts. 

Mr.  Haskell's  style  is  terse,  is  forcible,  is 
direct  and  his  use  of  the  English  language 
reminds  one  largely  of  the  beautiful  English 
of  Charles  Reade,  that  finest  writer  of  pure 
Saxon.  And  as  noted  before,  in  his  "Scrib- 
bler" papers  there  was  a  sense  of  humor  that 
cheered  and  enlivened. 

His  business  and  professional  career  is  not 
better  perhaps,  than  his  social  and  domestic 
life.  He  married  in  1861  Celia,  daughter  of 
Jonas  Hill  of  Fayette,  Maine.  The  details 
of  his  genealogy  will  be  hereafter  published. 

His  "Round  the  World  Letters"  written  in 
1893-4  all(1  published  in  the  Sunday  Herald 
deserve  special  mention  and  we  hope  some 
time  in  the  near  future  to  see  them,  with  the 
"adventure  of  the  scribbler  formally  aboard" 
published  in  book  form. 

A  good  man  ought  to  have  good  surround- 
ings. Generally  they  do  not  have:  but  Mr. 
Haskell  is  the  exception  that  proves  the 
rule.  He  has  a  magnificent,  a  splendid  and 
a  sumptuous  home  in  Auburndale,  Newton, 
overlooking  the  valley  ol  the    Charles   river. 

We  have  officers  in  the  army  and  in  the 
navy.  We  have  officials  of  states  and  terri- 
tories. We  have  attorneys,  physicians,  and 
merchants;  and  now  we  can  say  that  the 
Haskell  Journal  brings  to  the  attention  of 
five  thousand  of  our  people  that  we  have  a 
journalist  that  does  credit  to  our  name. 

M.  WO. 


The   Pittsburgh,  Ohio.    Post    of    February 
13th    contained    an    exceedingly    interesting 

article    concerning   the  work  of  one    ui 

people,  Miss  Helen  Gowan  Haskell,  who  is 
an  artist  of  that  city  devoting  especial  atten- 
tion to  the  question  of  historic  ornament. 


Till'    1 1 A  S  K  I ;  I .  I .   10URNA1 


FROM    E.    B.    HASKELL  Hon.    and    Col.    Alexander    C.    Haskell    of 

Some  Letters  and  Memoranda  son    of   'Major   i-inathan   Haskeii,  whose 

icrtrait    is   in    the    picture   in    the    national 

apitol.     The  picture  is  easily  found.     There 

nly  one  "Surrender  of  Uuruoyne"  in  ill 


Boston,   fan.  29,  1  S98. 
Buknkttr   G.  Haskkll— Deak    Sir:     A 


copy  of   the   first  number  of  the   Haskki.i.      Rotunda.     [ft!iere  is  a     ,,nt  of  it    Col,  A.C. 
Journal    received.     I     think  you  have    hit      |Iask,.U  woll.d  know.     Thcv   have   a    kev  al 


upon  a  very   happy    scheme    to   coll 
(reserve  the  records  of  our 


Boston,  Feb.  is.  189S 

BURNK'l 

TR  G.  II  \SKRT.L   -DRARSiR:    Ml 

1  wrote  vi 

.11  yesterday    I    have   receive, 1  fi 

a  relative 

in  Maine  the   following  facts  ab 

the    Kimi 

iv    of     my      grandfather,     Willi 

Haskell. 

His  lather    Job,  must    have    mo- 

from    Glo 

ucester,  Mass..  the  old    hive   of 

1  represent.     Ma, or  Klnathan  settled   in  South 

1  herewith  remit  a   check    for    a   yea,  s  sub-  CaInlma  after  llu.  war  and  lliarricd  mt„  tJ1IC 

scr.pt.on  to  the  Journal  .,,.,,  of  the  best   families.     Col.  A.   C.  could  un- 

Dudley  II.  Haskell,  who  is  associated  with  doubtedly  furilisll  a    slcetch    of  ,lis  life.     He 
you  is  my  double  cousin.     Our  lathers  were  raised    ii     Old    Gloucester     Miss       llis 

brothers   and    our    mothers    sisters,     lie  can  descendants     hive     -Ivivs     stood     hiirli     in 

furnish  all    needed    information    in  regard  to  South  Carolina'     Seven'of   his    trreat-irrand 

our  special  branch,  the  desendants  of  Wil-  sons  were  officers  in  the  rebel  armv      ' 
liam     Haskell,    who    emigrated   from    Clou-  Vours  truly    F    B   Haskeii 

eester,  Mass.,  soon  after  the  Revolutionary 
war  to  a  township  in  Maine,  which  became 
New  Gloucester,  though  he  finally  settled 
in  the  adjoining  town,  Poland.  I  have 
visited  the  gra\  es  of  my  grandfather's  grand- 
father and  grandmother  in  Gloucester,  Mass., 
headstones  in  good  condition.  I  send  you 
a  family   tree   of  t lie  descendants    of  the  first 

William, '^immigrant, 'which    I    think   is    ac  family,  where  I  have  seen  the  headstones  of 

curate     as    far    as    it    goes,    though     many  my  great  great-grandfather    William    and  his 

branches  are  not  carried  out.     This  tree  was  wife. 

the  work  of  William    O.    Haskell  of  Boston,  My    grandfather    was    horn    at    Hampton 

who   died    live    or    six     years     ago.      He  had  [falls,    X.    II., '.July    30,     1755.      He    married 

collected    a    large    amount  of    geneological  Rebecca    Bradbury  (born    Mar.    19,  1760)   at 

material     about    the    family,    which     he    was  Salisbury,    Mass,    (presumably      her    home) 

nearly  ready  to   publish   when    he    died.     1  May     19,    177s.     She    died   March    1  r,    1820. 

had  agreed  to  be  his  financial  sponsor   in  the  He,  after  having  two  other    wives,  died  July 

enterprise.      I    do    not    know    what  became  of  3,    1832. 

his    collected    materials,    and    the    family    he  '    On   or    soon     after     their     marriage,   the; 
left  is  so  scattered   I    should    not    know  hov 
to  go  to  work    to    find   out.     I    question    if 
know  of  any  Haskells  you  have  not  reached 

I  will  give  you  the  name  of  Rev.  |.  W.  Their  children  were  as  follows:  Benji 
Chadwick,  Brooklyn,  X.  Y.,  whose  mother  born  in  New  Gloucester,  |an.  4,  1779;  W 
was  a1,  Haskell,  and  Col.  Alexander  C.  Has-  liam.  bom  ill  Xew  Gloucester,  Ni 
kell,  Columbia,  S.  C,  one  of  the  best  and  Jemima.  New  Gloucester  July  '\  1782; 
ablest  men  of  the  name.  His  grandfather  or  Thomas,  New  Gloucester,  b'eb.  2S,  1  7S4;  Re- 
great-grandfather,  Hlnathan  Haskell,  settled  becca,  April  r,  17S6;  Mercy,  Nov.  30  1787, 
in  South  Carolina  at  the  close  of  the  Revolu-  Comfort,  New  Gloucester,  Aug.  1  |.  1789; 
tumarv  war.  lie  was  a  gallant  officer  in  Joseph,  bom  i  n  Poland,  June  :o,  .;..:  Job 
that  war,  and  his  portrait  mav  been  seen  in  in  Poland,  | nly  18,  170;,:  Nathaniel,  in 
the  Surrender  of  Burgoyne,  in  the  Rotunda  Poland,  May  22*  1795;  John  Cotton,  Poland, 
of  the  national  eapitol,  by  Trumbull.  He  Mar.  28,  1797;  Moses  Greenleaf,  Poland,  Feb. 
was  a  fi ue  specimen  of  physical  manhood.  28,  1799;  Jabez,  Poland,  [uly  13,  1S01;  Han- 
Yours  truly,  nah,  Poland,  Oct.  15,  1S03. 

K  P..  Haskell.  My  grandfather  William,  was  married 
BOSTON,  b'eb.  .4  [S98.  again  June  2  1S21,  to  Rebecca  I.ane  of 
Bl'RNKTTE  G  Haskrii— Dear  Sik-  I  Poland.  Their  children  were:  Hannah, 
sent  yoii  ..  (lithograph)  family  tree,' which  born  in  Poland,  b'eb.  22,  1823;  Mary,  Poland. 
contains  all  that. [-know  about  mv  immediate  May  2.  1824;  Rebecca,  Nov.  30,  1S25;  Mary- 
ancestry.  You  will  see  by  that  that  I  am  Ann,  Poland,  Mar.  14,  1827;  l-than  Murray, 
a    son    of    Moses    Greenleaf,   and    so    on.      I  Poland,  Dec.  23,  1828. 

know  of  no  way  to  get  hold  of  the  collection  I  have    no    record    ol    my    grandfathers 

of  Wm.  O.  Haskell   deceased.     A    notice   in  third      marriage.      All      my     grandfather's 

the  Journal    might    be    seen    by    .-..me  one  children,  except  possibly  one,  lithan  Murray 

who  knows.     Mv    letter   or   any    other  form  by    his    second     wife,     are     deceased.     My 

would  answer.    '.Mv  esteemed    friend,  Judge,  father  died  in  February,   1885,  aged  86. 


On 

or    soon     after     their     111; 

nove 

,1    to    New    Gloucester,    M 

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lived      until      about     1790, 

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■d     in       Poland,    the      adj. 

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born     in     New    Gloucester 

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ASKELL  JOURNAL 


rf  my    grandfather's    ramily    was    a    fail 
sample  for  size  the   geneology    of   the   Has- 
kills  will  be  a  voluminous  work. 
Yours  truly, 
Edwin  Bkaduury   II  \skkll. 

I  have  seen  the  graves  of  mv  great-great- 
grandfather, William  and  his  wife  in  the 
first  cemetery  of  the  Wesl  Parish  of  Glou- 
cester, Mass.  Headstones  are  in  good  con- 
dition. They  lived  and  died  there.  My 
great-grandfather,  Job,  born  and  lived  in 
Gloucester.  I  think  he  went  to  Maine  with 
my  grandfather  in  his  old  age.  M\  grand 
father  William,  born  in  Gloucester,  Mass., 
emigrated  to  New  Gloucester,  Maine,  soon 
after  the  Revolutionary  war  with  other 
Gloucester  people.  Settled  in  Poland,  ad- 
joining Now  Gloucester,  lived  and  died  there. 
My  father,  born  in  Poland,  Feb.  28,  1709, 
married  Rosilla  Haines,  daughter  ol  Capt. 
Peter  Haines  of  Livermore,  Me  ,  [821,  settled 
lived  and  died  there  in  1SS5.  aged  86.  I 
was  born  in  Livermore,  Me.,  Aug.  24,  1837, 
married  Celia  Hill,  daughter  of  Jonas  Hill 
ol  Fayette,  Maine,  Aug.  21;,  rS6i.  Settled 
in  Host. .11  in  Aug.  1856.  Reporter  on 
Journal  and  Herald,  [857  to  1861;  editor  [862 
to  iSSS;  one  of  the  proprietors  from  [865  to 
present  time. 

Have  four  children  living:-  William  Ed- 
win, manager  of  Minneapolis  Times,  horn 
June  18,  1862;  married  Annie  C  Mason  Nov. 
1.  1S84.  She  died  Feb.  1SS6.  Married  again 
Olga  Van  Weddelstaedt,  Mar.  1887.  Har- 
vard 1884. 

Henry  Hill,  horn  Jan.  6,  1S69;  Oculist, 
Boston;  married  April  1890;  Harvard  1S90. 

Margarel,  horn  Sept.  [8,  1865.  Still  un- 
married. 

Clarence  Greenleaf,  horn  Nov.  30,  1879. 
Now  freshman  at  Harvard. 

Three  children  died  in  infancy:  Helen, 
Elizabeth  and  Walter  Bret. 


AUNT    H1TTY    HASKELL. 
■0111  the  "Cape    Ann     Weekly  Advertise] 


Among  other  most  interesting  hooks  and 
pamphlets  received  in  connection  with  the 
hiMon  is  a  hound  volume  o\  i.m.  pages,  en- 
titled as  follows:  "The  Narrative  of  "the  Life. 
Experience  and  Work  of  an  American  Citi- 
zen." By  George  Haskell,  Ipswich,  Masschu- 
setts.  Chronicle  Publishing  Companv,  1896. 
Ii  is  published  by  the  Hon.  George  Haskell, 
a  four  time  Councilman, Town  Commissioner, 
Member  of  the  Legislature  and  successful 
attorney,  and  now  nearly  ninety  years  of 
age.  It  is  worth  reading  indeed,  and  ex- 
cerpts from  it  will  hereafter  be  published  in 
the  Journal. 

The  editor  of  the  Journal  is  compelled  to 
say  that  the  wealth  of  material  oil  hand  and 
r. •<  eived  since  the  publication  of  theJot'RNAL 
is  such  that  lie  must  beg  our  people  to  have 
patience. 


hew  Gloucester  families  have  been  moo 
remarkable  for  general  intelligence,  origin- 
ality of  views,  and  strength  of  character,  and 
few  have  been  more  widely  known,  than  the 
line  of  Aaron  Haskell  of  West  Gloucester, 
who  died  iii  1S34,  at  the  age  of  eighty-three 
years.  Of  his  nine  children  seven  lived  be- 
yond the  age  of  fourscore  years,  as  did  very 
many  of  their  ancestors  and  kindred,  and  no 
family,  probably,  in  the  country.can  point  10 
so  many  instances  of  longevity.  His  daugh- 
ter, Sarah,  wife  and  widow  of  James  Uiv,«s 
died  a  year  and  a  half  ago,  having  attained 
the  age  of  ninety-six  years,  with  faculties  of 
mind  and  body  comparatively  unimpaired. 
Like  all  the  family  she  was  marked  by  strong 
good  sense  and  earnest  fidelity  to  principle. 
These  qualities,  inherent  in  all  the  family, 
were  most  marked  in  Mr.  Thomas  Haskell, 
familiarly   known    as  "Uncle  Tommy,"  who 

died  ill  1873,  at  the  age  of  eighty-two  years, 
and  Miss  Mehitahle  1!  askell,  the  last  survivor 
of  the  family,  who  passed  away  last  Saturday, 
in  her  ninetieth  year.  Both  gave  to  the 
great  reforms  of  the  day  a  loyal  adhesion, 
and  their  homes  were  ever  open  to  the  great 
advocates  of  abolition,  universal  peace,  unre- 
stricted suffrage,  and  advanced  thought  in 
any  direction.  Aunt  Hitty,  as  she  was  gen- 
erally called,  without  taking  offence,  was  a 
woman  of  more  than  ordinary  force  of  char- 
acter, a  woman  of  sound  judgment,  having 
views  of  her  own  on  all  the  exciting  questions 
of  the  day,  and  always  ready  to  utter  and 
defend  them.  In  her  younger  days,  long  he- 
fore  the  era  of  women  preachers  and  women 
lecturers,  she  traveled  to  some  extent,  and 
proclaimed  her  views  from  pulpit  and  ros- 
trum. For  several  months  she  had  been  a 
sufferer  from  dropsy,  but  her  mind  remained 
unclouded  and  serene.  To  her,  even  before 
her  illnes.-',  death  had  no  terrors,  but  was 
looked  upon  in  the  light  of  a  friend  who 
would  hi  ing  release  from  the  growing  infirm- 
ities of  old  age  and  open  to  her  a  life  of  re- 
newed usefulness.  "There  are  more  on  the 
other  side  than  on  this,"  she  was  accustomed 
to  say,  and  while  willing  to  await  the  Master's 
call,  she  yet  longed  for  a  reunion  with  those 
gone  before.  And  no w  that  longing  has  heen 
satisfied.  She  has  entered  the  portals  of  the 
haven  of  rest. 

Miss  Haskell's  funeral  took  place  from  her 
cottage  home  on  Tuesday  forenoon.  There 
was  a  lar^e  attendance  of  neighbors  and 
friends,  from  near  and  far.  According  toher 
request,  the  services  were  simple  in  their 
character,  consisting  only  of  short  addresses 
by  her  old-time  friends,  Wendell  Phillips  and 
Lucy  Stone.  We  give  Mr.  Phillips  address 
in  full. 


THE    HASKELL  JOURNAL 


Wendeli.Phiu.ips'  Address. 

"Friends:— You  all  know  well  that  thedear 
friend  who  has  left  us  was  singular;  I  do  not 
mean  in  the  sense  of  odd,  but  that  she  was 
individually  peculiar  in  all  her  views  of  life 
and  duty  and  in  regard  to  the  services  that 
should  be  rendered  to  the  dust  of  those  who 
had  passed  away,  and  in  the  meaning  that 
she  put  on  the  great  problems  of  life.  It  \\  ill 
not  surprise  you  therefore  that  she  called 
only  on  her  friend  I.ucy  Stone  and  myself, 
not  on  the  ordinary  ministry,  lor  any  wolds 
to  he  tendered  at  such  a  gathering  as  this, 
when  we  reverently  lay  her  dust  away  with 
her  kindred.  It  could  hardly  he  a  fitting 
elose  to  a  life  full  of  such  testimony  against 
ceremony,  against  routine,  full  of  such  loy- 
alty to  essentials,  to  the  real  and  realities  of 
life,  it  would  hardly  he  a  fitting  elose  it  she 
had  not  borne  her  testimony  even  in  this  last 
possible  word  that  was  uttered  over  her 
grave,  against  what  all  her  life  had  been  an 
effort  to  change;  for  if  there  was  anything 
peculiarly  characteristic  of  the  friend,  that 
has  gone,  it  was  her  individual  independence. 

Mr.  Kmerson  said,  and  she  loved  to  quote 
many  of  his  sayings,  "He  yourself;  do  not  im- 
itate Others;  do  not  lose  yourself  in  the  forms 
and  mockery  of  life."  She  was  peculiarly 
herself.  She  let  her  own  nature  (lower  out. 
She  deemed  nothing  bad  that  Cod  had  planted 
in  hei  soul.  I  remember  one  of  the  last  re- 
marks she  made  to  me  some  ten  days  ago 
when  I  saw  her,  that  she  thought  if  we  would 
let  our  nature  grow,  if  we  would  let  our 
powers  naturally  evolve,  if  we  were  not  afraid 
of  our  own  peculiarities,  that  we  should  do 
better  service  to  Cod;  that  if  we  would  not 
put  our  thoughts  under  confinement,  shap- 
ing them  after  some  other  model,  obeying 
anybody  else's  maxims,  we  were  sufficient 
for  ourselves.  I  well  remember  the  earnest- 
ness with  which  she  insisted  upon  this  sufli- 
ciency  of  man's  self  to  himself.  That  seemed 
to  be  the  key  to  her  life.  I  never  knew  a 
more  independent  working  in  any  intelligent 
being  than  in  her  case.  She  seemed,  not  de- 
fiant, not  to  lack  appreciation  of  what  others 
could  suggest  to  her:  for  she  was  humble,  she 
was  generous  in  her  appreciation  of  the  gifts 
of  others:  but  in  the  last  resort,  in  the  last 
analysis,  she  was  willing  to  rely  on  herself. 

This  is  one  of  the  great  lessons  Americans 
need  to  learn,  to  overcome  this  deference  to 
public  opinion,  this  submission  to  fashion, 
this  running  in  a  groove,  this  being  contented 
for  one  man  to  be  made  in  another's  model, 
this  longing  to  know  what  other  men  think, 
what  the  general  judgment  will  be,  this  un- 
willingness to  listen  to  the  voice  of  God  in 
our  own  souls.  I  always  thought  that  this 
was  one  of  the  finest  characteristics  of  the 
friend  we  mourn  today  —  or  rather  we  do 
„ot  mourn  her;  like  a  ripe  fruit,  full  of  years, 
having  faithfully  met  her  duties,  she  throws 


off  the  burden  of  dust  and  broadens  to  higher 

duties,  a  broader  outlook  even  than  she  had 
here.  There  is  hardly  a  change  in  this 
change  of  death  to  her.  We  can  hardly  con- 
ceive of  any  more  earnestness  in  the  glorified 
spirit  than  she  had  in  her  daily  walk,  for  she 
was  above  ordinary  men  at.d  women  earnest. 
So  many  men  are  drowned  in  petty  cares, 
there  is  no  high  hearted  serious  move  in  life. 
We  confound  ourselves  with  the  necessity  of 
being  amused,  of  getting  rid  of  the  passing 
hours.  It  is  so  rare  to  meet  persons  whose 
walk  is  full  of  earnestness;  who  live  on  a 
high    level. 

It  is  said  of  Charles  Sumner  that  hardly  a 
line  in  his  works  stirs  a  smile;  his  life  was 
one  everj  moment  of  which  was  crowded 
with  an  earnest  desire  to  use  it  to  the  best 
advantage.  Ami  she  had  that  same  motive. 
She  was  crowned  by  an  earnestness  of  pur- 
pose.  She  was  never  found  idle.  She  was 
willing  to  work,  calling  nothing  drudgery 
that  would  minister  to  another's  comfort  or 
her  own  necessity.  She  still  made  time,  out 
of  what  we  should  have  thought  perhaps  a 
narrow  life,  toconsider  thebroadest  problems, 
and  think  upon  all  the  disputed  questions  of 
the  age.  And  although  deeply  interested. 
profoundly  interested,  in  such  questions,  I 
never  saw  in  her  the  slightest  intolerance. 
Earnest  in  her  convictions,  decided  in  her 
opinions,  she  always  felt  the  perfect  right  of 
another  human  being  to  differ  from  her, 

Narrowness  is  afraid  of  dispute  and  discus- 
sion, because  in  its  superficial  examination  it 
distrusts  the  soundness  of  its  opinions.  I  re- 
member.\unt  Hitly  was  constantly  willing 
the  winds  of  doctrine  should  blow  from  every 
quarter,  that  everything  should  be  stated  on 
the  other  side.  She  had  no  fear  that  the 
truth  would  sutler.  She  hail  full  courage 
of  soul,  that  felt  she  had  tried  as  far  as  Cod 
had  enabled  her  to  probe  down  to  the  very 
bottom  of  existence,  and  if  she  had  not  found 
the  truth  she  wanted  to  be  told.  I  do  not 
think  anybody  ever  heard  her  conten  an- 
other man's  opinion,  if  she  thought  he  had 
honestly  endeavored  to  reach  sound    conclu- 

She  set  herself  on  a  high  level.  Hers  was 
no  common  lite,  not  bound  in  by  ordinary 
views,  by  the  mere  circle  of  daily  duties. 
These  she  did  not  neglect.  She  was  a  pi  a.  - 
tical  woman.  Her  favorite  Kmerson  says 
again,  "Always  keep  your  feet  close  to  the 
earth;  do  not  be  a  dreamer."  She  kept  her 
feet  close  to  the  earth,  practically.  Iv/ery 
duty  was  done,  every  sacrifice  that  she  could 
be  called  upon  for  was  made.  When  she 
had  earned  intellectual  leisure,  then  she  gave 
consideration  to  the  profound  problems  of 
the  age,  with  rare  intellectuality,  with  a 
man's  brain  wedded  to  a  woman's  instinct, 
the  finest  instrument  Cod  ever  gives  us  for 
the  solution  of  del;,  ate  problems, 


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III 


H'RNA! 


You  nii^lit  have  said,  had  you  looked  at 
her  life  in  a  country  village,  with  not  over 
lavish  means,  that  she  had  no  great  responsi- 
bility, and  nevei  would  have  any  widely  ex- 
tended interests.  But  this  earnest  life,  this 
intellectually  able  and  morally  active  intel 
led  ranged  itself  alongside  of  the  grandest 
minds  of  the  age.  It  shows  how-  naturally 
sympathy  marries  intellect  and  conduct,  that 
she  could  not  be  kept  either  •vilhin  the  local- 
ity of  her  dwelling  or  village,  but  was  asso- 
ciated ill  intimate,  constant  and  confidential 
intercourse  with  men  and  women  who  have 
shaped  their  times;  and  it  mav  be  said  of  her 
under  this  root,  that  her  hand  rested  on  the 
helm  of  many  of  the  great  movements  of  the 
age.  She  had  her  share  of  counsel  and  sug- 
gestion that  stilled  the  intellect  of  those 
whose  voices,  heard  in  the  Valley  of  the 
Mississippi  ami  on  the  hanks  of  the  Potomac, 
in  the  grandest  struggles  of  the  age,  have 
made  an  epoch  or  contributed  to  make  an 
epoch  which  history  will  immortalize,  when 
this  generation  passes  into  historic  record. 
Some  of  you  know  how  intimate  and  familiar 
she  was  with  those  men  and  women  to  whom 
I  allude.  How  often,  reverently  they  sat  at 
her  feet  learning  from  her  independent  judg- 
ment and  wiser  counsel,  nurtured  in  solitude. 

The  great  historian  of  the  Roman  Empire 
said  once,  "Learning  is  useful,  but  solitude  is 
the  school  of  genius.''  And  under  this  roof, 
given  up  to  her  own  meditation,  even  not 
seeing  a  human  face  for  days,  she  sal  in  the 
sacredness  of  her  own  meditation  on  deep 
problems,  and  God  showed  her  clearer  light; 
so  that  when  we  gather  around  this  dust  of 
ninety  years  it  is  not  that  of  a  person  who 
has  mistered  merely  to  the  comfort  of  kindred, 
or  the  local  life  of  a  small  community,  it  is  of 
one  whose  active  brain  has  been  by  the  bless- 
ing of  God  a  strength  and  a  help  to  break 
the  chains  of  four  millions  of  people,  and  re- 
move the  deeper  prejudice  even  than  that, 
which  curbs  the  sphere  of  woman;  and  we 
add  our  testimony  to  her  widely  spread  in 
llucnccou  the  great  (|Ucstioiis  tliat  stir  and 
interest  forty  millions  of  people. 

This  little  stream,  it  is  almost  perhaps  a 
lew  drops  of  water  in  comparison  with  the 
millions  of  the  country.  Von  can  almost  bide 
it  with  your  hand,  men  would  saw  So  you 
can  hide  the  fountains  of  the  Mississippi, 
over  which  [  once  stepped.  As  it  develops, 
it  gathers  tributes  of  friendship  and  associa- 
tions and  companionship  ami  cooperation, 
till  it  bears  up  the  navies  of  the  nation,  and 
pouring  into  the  gulf  feeds  the  ocean  itself. 
So  of  this  lite,  which  has  not  ended.  This 
hamlet  will  long  tell  of  the  curious,  independ- 
ent, original,  influential,  intellectual  woman, 
human  being.  Your  children  will  remember, 
and  it  will  be  borne  down,  how  long  God 
granted  her  life,  how  erroneously  men  judged 
her;  perhaps  how  lonelj  ordinary    neighbors 


thought  her  existence,  not  comprehending 
the  invisible  ties,  the  intellectual  bonds,  that 
linked  her  with  the  great  world  of  thought, 
to  the  great  wave  of  progress.  You  come  to 
pay  the  last  tribute  of  respect  not  merely  to 
an  old  neighbor,  associated  with  historic  name 
on  these  plains  and  these  hills;  you  come  not 
to  pay  your  respect  to  the  last  representative 
of  a  prior  generation  that  reminds  you  of  the 
hardness  and  austerity  ami  sterile  nature  ol 
her  early  girlhood;  but  yon  come  to  pay  youi 
last  tribute  of  respect  to  the  dust  of  one  who 
rose  above  these  limitations  by  force  ol  rare 
intellectual  vigor  and  unconquerable  will; 
who  created  her  own  life,  drawing  to  itsell 
minds  of  wide  influence;  who  never  failed  at 
the  stern  command  of  duty,  who,  as  you  re- 
member, some  of  V0U,  faced  your  contempt, 
faced  unpopularity  and  trod  it  under  her  feet, 
and  waited  till  you  grew  wisei  and  the  world 
came  round  to  her  opinion,  mellowed  into 
the  fruits  that  Cod  had  shown  as  the  results 
of  great  reforms. 

It  seems  as  if  this  roof  must  bless  us;  as  if 
the  spirit  that  so  long  dwelt  here,  making  it 
a  fountain  of  strength  and  a  source  of  light, 
were  still  here;  as  if  you  would  bring  your 
children  in  time  to  come  to  this  little  dwelling 
and  make  it  historical.  1  stood  at  the  dooi 
of  John  Brown's  house,  of  a  w  inter  afternoon. 
and  looked  out  on  just  such  a  gathering  ol  .1 
hundred  of  his  neighbors.  He  that  lived 
there  has  passed  into  history.  That  spot, 
consecrated  by  the  martyrdom  of  the  most 
heroic  American  of  his  age,  is  now  a  Mecca 
for  Pilgrims  to  seek.  His  was  a  martyrdom 
that  was  lilted  up  in  the  sight  of  men  to 
gather  courage  over  every  conflict.  These 
ninety  years  that  are  ended  were  a  martyr- 
dom almost  as  real;  over  burning  plough- 
shares her  early  feet  walked,  for  you  remem- 
ber the  scorn,  rebuke  and  dislike  with  which 
her  opinions  were  received;  how  she  walked 
among  you  often  despised.  Now,  the  world 
all  changed,  and  milbons  converted  to  her 
ideas,  she  is  passing  ahead  in  front  of  us,  ever 
lush,  and  beckoning  us  onward  in  her  intel- 
lectual progress.  She  goes  clou  n  to  her  gra\  e 
having  made  the  world  better  than  she  found 
it,  having  made  it  wiser,  having  contributed 
to  make  it  freer. 

And  this  broken  body  has  dropped.  Cod 
calls  her  to  a  higher  sphere.  She  had  more 
on  the  other  side  witli  whom  she  had  labored 
than  on  this.  1  can  see  that  band  ready  to 
welcome  her  to  that  heaven  of  duty  and  effort, 
of  successful  effort,  stronger,  more  united 
and  with  more  visible  results.  She  died  with 
the  testimony  on  her  lips.  "All  ready,  a1V« 
bright,  I  have  a  deeper  faith  in  the  love  of 
Coil  than  ever."  I.ovc  ol'  humanity  showed 
her  in  the  last  hourstlie  love  of  Cod.  Round 
ed  into  perfection,  her  sun  set  in  no  clouds. 
Surviving  many  of  her  co-workers,  sh 
up  to  join  them.     The  record  is  sealed.    Long 


Till-:   IIASKKI.I.  JOURNAL  37 

£™%jJ,er1,iJj,°"Sf1,0sIdf1He'  !  SaW  ""  de"  A  S|'""  Account  "'   ,,u'   l^ccinhints  ol 

est,    tolerant,   intellectual,    Living  for  a  high  Will.   HasklMl  ol    Gloucester,  Mass, 
purpose,  on  the  level  of  the  grandest   effoi 

with  the  highest  devotion  to  duty,  what  more  I1V  ui.ysses  c.  haskrm,,  iieveri.y,  mass. 
can  you  ask  ?  No  matter  thai  she  did  not  ac-  1  1  n„,a  mm  last  nun 
cept  the  routine  of  church  service;  everything  17  Lydia  Haskki.i/  was  born  September 
good  and  perfect  cometh  down  from  God.  4,  1681,  and  probably  married  Kbenezer  Par- 
Ami  this  lire,  so  useful,  so  consecrated,  full  sons,  February  5,  1704  and  became  the 
of  such  grand  results,  it  could  not  have  been  mother  ol  Moses  Parsons,  the  ministei  of  Bj 
am  thin.-  but  from  the  hand  of  the  good  and  field,  whose  son  Thcophilns  was  the  learned 
the  great  Creator.  The  spirit  that  filled  her  lawyer  and  chief  justice  of  the  Supreme  In- 
life  must  have  heen  acceptable  to  the  Great  dicial  Court  of  Massachusetts,  from  1806  to 
hatlu  1,  for  she  lived  lor  her  kind  and    conse-  his  death  in   1813. 

crated  herself  to  their  service.      She    lived  lor  ,,     JacOH  H ASK'M  1      was  horn    J.muarv    1  ;, 

her    neighbor    and    sought     his   good.     She  ~           .,    ,/.,''              ,,      ""     ,      '    ,   ' 

,                      .,.  ,      ■                                   .     ,  1601;  resided  m  Gloucester,  Mass.   wheic  he 

knew    no   selhsh   aim   to  garner  up  into  her  ,•    ,    .      r 

own  hands    useless    accumulations.      Rvery-  „  '    'k"s    .'  ''■"'''                                           . 

,,■         ,                1        .   ,-  He  was  a  deacon  o    tne second    church  m 

thin-   she  spread  out   for  service,  and  "inas-  ,.,                     ,,                     .    .    ,.          , 

,                   ,             ...                 ,       ,  Gloucester.      He  was   married     Dcceinlu-r    ji, 

much  as  you  have   done    it    unto   the    least    ol  .      ...      .,   ,.                  1       l-     1    \       -i 

,,              "    1      .1         ".1      ,-       .    »,     .          ■,.  1716,  Abigail  Marcy,  who  died  Apr  I  io,  1778, 

these    my  brethren,     the  Grea    Master  wdi  '      '    .   ,  7    ,,                          ,  ,       ',        ,     '.' 

,     -  ,.  ,   .                          ,  •    .,           ■  ■  aged  eighty-three  years,  and  by  whom  he  had 

say,  she  did  it  unto    me.     li     the    spirit  oi  ,."     .  ./>    .         ,  ..  .-         '        . .   -   , 

,.,.,,              ,                  ,-        ,..-,■.  the  !o    owing  chili  Ire  11,  all   ol     whom,    except 

Chnslianity  be,  as  I  am    inclined  to  think  it  . .                   ',-,-,, 

,,,,-,■,                                   ,  Abner,  married   in  Gloucester: 

is.  all    gathered  in   these   pregnant    words  ol  . 

the  apostle,  "Bear  ye  one  another's  burdens,"  v;f    '    ,  '*  "'  '    '' '  '   '':'  1;,S;  "L    ra,)lt"8   "">'' 

then  this   life   touched    as    nearly    as   any    life  '    -,, '    \\      Aimer,  b,  Dec.  5.  1721. 

can,  perfection.     l"'or  she   sought   to  hear  all  77    iii     Abigail,  !>.  Jan   27,1724;   m.  Thmnas   i.ni- 

burdens,  to  sympathize   in  sorrow,  to  do  her  kin,  3d.  of  Ipswich,  Mass. 

full  share  to  relieve  all  woes,  and  to   give  the  ,_^    ,'"„., Vl?- k'-'ll  'and  m'  V,!'t ''; '  i:"!  2   K.„  iu-l  Si.m- 

world    a    nobler,    higher   light   than    thai    into  wood    '  He  and  his  wife    I, ncy  were  'dismissed    from 

which     she     was   baptized.     The    blessing    of  the  church  in  Gloucester,    Mass,    to   the   church   in 

Cod  rest  upon   her    example.   '  The   gratitude  AttUbor..  Mass ...  in  i7y. 

of  even  true  man  is  due  to  her  great  model,  ['[    V     l^';'J]j  \  turns,  j  h.  Oct.  30,  r729. 

and   1  thank  Cod    for  that   life,    rounded    and  si     vii    Ksih'e'r,  baptized  Jan.  23,  1732;  in.    Samuel 

perfected      for    the    instruction    Ol    those      •.    ho        Si ,  ,,f  Maiuhe-tei,  M 

come  after   her."  s-     viii  Zebulon,  b.  Oct.  17,  1734. 

After  a  few  moments  of  silent  prayer,  Mrs.  26  Joseph     II  aski-.u..,     was     horn     Nov- 

I.ucv  Stone  spoke  feelingly  of  the  character  ember  27,  r 68 r ,  resided  in    Gloucester,  Mass., 

and    example  of  the  deceased,  indulging  in  where    he    died     December     13,     1768,  aged 

reminiscences  of  her  life    and  characteristics.  eighty-seven     years,      lie    married,    January 

and  the  services  were  brought    to   a   ch.se   by  13,   1705,  Sarah   Davis,    probably  daughter   of 

the   singing   of    the    hymn,   "There's   a    Land  Jacob  Davis,  who  died    March     25,   1725,  aged 

that  is  Pairer  than  Day."     The  body  was  fol-  forty  years,  and  by  whom  he  had  the  follow- 

lowed  to  its  last  resting  place  in  the  old  ceme-  ing  children: 

ten  by  a  long  cortege  of  family  connections  S3    i       Elizabeth,  »>.  Oct.  21,  1706;  d.  Dec.  23, 1706. 

and    friends  sl     ''       Sarah,  b.  Dec.  19,  1707;  d.  l-'eli.  17,  I7°s- 

'  (]•■ ll.c  -''Cape  Ann  Weekly    Advister.of    Nov-  s?     !»      Mercy    b.  April  21,  1709;  d.  July  1,  1717. 

eiuliei    1.   |S;s  ,                       .  s"      > '•       Joiialliau,  I.    i  i.  '.  .•-,.  1,1".  m     |an.  <•,    i  .      >, 

;         Mr.  Francis   C.    Haskell,  of  T'S-  Mar-y  hawyer  and  was  lost  at  sea  on  a  nsliing  voyage 

se\.  dud  at  Hie  lesidciue  of    Mi.    David    But-  'S;'    v       Susannah,  b.  l-eb.  20,' 1712. 

ler  in  this  town  on  the  2d  ult.,  at    the  age  of         ss    vi     is,  h.'.\ug.  20,  1713. 

tweutv  four    years.      lie    was    loved     and    re-  s'<     vii     David,  b.  April  9,  1715- 

spected  by  all  who  knew    him.  as  v.  as  proved  £     £»  ^ %i ^ ^V/.V;  .1  -Nov.   (O,  in; 

hv  the  kind  attention  ol    Ins  friends  through  ',     x      uutli,  b.  fan.  25,  1719. 

his  long  and  trying  illness,  which  he  bore  1,3  xi  Joseph,  b.  Aiij,'.'  '19,  1720;  in.  Anna  Steele, 
patiently  and  submissively,  though  welcom-  JM 
ins  the  summons,  "To  depart  and  be  with 
Christ,  which  is  better."  The  funeral  ser-  29  Daniel  HASKELL  was  born  De- 
vices at  the  aboved  named  place  on  the  fol-  cember  r6,  1688,  resided  in  Gloucester,  Mass., 
lowing  day,  were  conducted  by  Rev.  Ceo.  I..  where  he  died  December  4  or  14. 
Gleason,  who  spoke  from  Rev'.  14:13,  paying  He  married  his  cousin  Sarah  Haskell  (22), 
a  warm  tribute  to  the  excellent  character  sus-  daughter  of  William  Haskell  (2),  December 
tained  by  the  deceased.  The  singing  by  31,  1716,  who  died  July  10,  1773,  aged  eighty 
members  of  the  choir  of  the  Baptist  church  years,  ami  by  whom  he  had  the  following 
added   to   the    interest   and   solemnity.  children: 


5ai  1I1    I     I 


38  'I'll!',   HASKELL  JOURNAL 

,)S     i  Daniel, b. .1717.  i-'H     vi      Adoniram,  h.Jan.  14.  17V*;  was'lustatsei 

.,n     ii  Daniel,  I'.  Oct,  2,  17 is;  d.  Dec.  12,  171s.  i„  1764  witli  his  brother  [osinli. 

ij7    iii  Mary,  l»  Oct,  30  1719.  40  Thomas    Haskki.i.    wasborn    lamian 

cs    iv  Aaron,  b.  Aug.  2f>,  1721.  ,     ,     -        ...             ,           ,,                   ' 

99    v  Caleb,  b.juh  24.  172v.n1.   Dee.   11,   175",  '.  1090;  resided    m    Gloucester,     Mass.,    and 

!li/abclh  lluskcll  (     (.and  settled  in' Newbury',  Mass!  Falmouth,  now  Portland,  Maine,  and   died  in 


iu-1,  b.  April  27,  i7..5.  ijK.  iatter  place  February  r. 

Nebemiab,  b.  Marcli  2  (, 
iii   Judith,  b.  I'eb.  1, 


Iv  five  )  cm  is. 

103  ix"  Saruh'.'bTuec.'s'J,  In  Gloucester  he  was    known    as  a  "sober 

1..  1  s      |oel,  b.jnly  9, 1733.  sort  of  a  man;"  lie  removed  from  thence  with 

105  xi     Moses,  b.  Ma)   15,  1736.  his  family  to  said  Falmouth    in    1726,    which 

30  K'm  Ni:/],k     Haskki.i.      was    born  Feb-  was  at  that  time  being  resettled  after   its   al 

ruarj     22,  1690.     He    liad    :i    wife    Flizabeth  most  entire  destruction  by  the    Indians,  and 

ami  several  children,  one  of  whom   Klijah,  is  he  was  there  a  long  and  respectable  inhabit- 

said  to  have  siii In!  in  Salem,  Mass.  ant.     lie  had  a  house  lot  granted  him  in  1726 

lie    resided    in    Gloucester,    Mass.,   and  is  on  the  corner  of  Fore  and  King  streets  where 

probably  the  Fbenezer  who  is   said    l<>    have  he  probably  made  his  home. 

died  there  at  the  age  of  eighty  years  He  was  one  of  those  who    were    embodied 

If.  however,  he  was  the   lather  ol    Zachari-  in  the  first  church  in  Falmouth  on  the  settle- 

ah,  as  claimed  by  William  II.  Haskell  of    Al  ment  of  Rev.  Thomas  Smith  in  i7j;,au<l  was 

bany,  N.  Y.,  and    as   shewn    on    William    O.  one  of  the  committee    appointed    to    lay  out 

Haskell's  genealogical    tree,  he    probably  re-  lands  in  1732. 

moved  to  Gianville,  Mass.  More  distinguished  was  he  in  another  way, 

His  children  were  horn  as  follows:  for  he  had  ten  children,  seventy-nine  grand- 

100    i       Ezra,  b.  Jan.  -'7,  1725,  an.  1   probably  died  children,  and  fifty-eight  great  grandchildren, 

young,  and    left  a  numerous    posterity,    and     is    sup- 

::s  iii  suss I ":« ft1,7?*  r"**^ ,.,«,.„ of  most 0f  the  ..... 

log    iv     Rnocli,  l)  July  i.  1730.  kdls  '"  Maine. 

110     v        I'hiiw.i-  |nr  Au  !iai-iah|,  b.  Sept.  IS,  1732.  1 1  e  Ii rst  married     Hannah     Freez    of    Xew- 

"i     vi      Elijah,  b   Oct.  20,  173-1-  bury,  Mass.,  in  1717,  by    whom    he    had  one 


Stephen,  b.    Dec. 
111    Sarah,  b. ;  baut.  M: 


child  Thomas.     She  died    February  10,  171S, 
'  ,,      ,      at  the  age  of  twenty  years. 
36   BrCNjAMlN    HASKRI.I.3  was    born    March  ,  K.  |u.x,  ^.^  fi         pa  November 

,1683   resided  in    Gloucester,  Mass.,  where  Of  his  children.  Thomas,  Hannah, 

,edl.cd  l<eb-9;  1764,  aged  seventy-nine  years,     Marv,  Solomon  and  Benjamin    were    horn  in 


leaving  no  male  issue 

He  married  in  1708    Flizabeth    Allen 


Gloucester,  the  othersin  Falmouth,  as f< 
120     i        Thomas,  I,    Fan.  .•7.  171S. 


died  September 3,  1724,  aged  thirty-five  year 

and  August  24,  1725,  he  married  for   his    sec-  131     iii      Mary,  l>. '  April  21,  1722. 

Olid   wife   Elizabeth   Bennet,  who  died  Decern-  ':.-     iv      Solomon,  b    111'   5,  1724. 

he  r:'„  1744,  probably  eighty-four  years  of  age.  l$i    v.     '''V'.''a""n'  ''•  M,lv  •*■  '7J<' 

His  children  were  horn  as  follows:  |*j     *},    sVr'.lV,'"'  1  t"'n"i    [ ''.  Juneas.  172S. 

,709.     '            "    '       '"     '    '"                        ''    ''    '  '"'      '  I37     ix"   JohIi!'b!'AuB 

41     Willi  .  m      1 1  \m<  iii..        was        born 

Al,K    ,  April  o,  1695,  in  Gloucester,  Mass..  where  he 

always  resided  and  where    he    died    July   21, 

")■  177s.  aged  eighty-four  years. 

s>  '7l9-  He  married    Jerusha    Bennett    January    1. 

1729,  and  had  by  her  the  following  children: 

39  JOSIAH      HASKI-I.U   was     horn     Septem-  ilaV^«i!  Abigail  Babwn.  Mare* l.s! 'r^o.*"1'1'0*6 

her  25,   1687,  resided  in  Gloucester,  Mass.,  and  140     ii       Keturah.b.  May  2,  i7,;j. 

is  supposed  to  have  settled  in  the  harbor  par-  M'     '"      Ahiinelech,  b.  May  <>,  1733. 

ish  about  1738,  where  he  died  prior   to    1762,  u'    IN     J"11*""'  b-  "fc-2S.  '737- 

,   ■                T      ■   I     ■         •          ,                          ■     .      ,       ,      ■  14  1      v        !-.-n  all,  li.  Sept.  I  I ,    I "  ;<  1. 

his  son  Josiau  having  been  appointed  admin-  ,[,    vj     |  ,,,.v   |,   yiit. 

istrator  of  his  estate  in  that  year.  [45    vii   Judith,  b.  July  29)  1746. 

He  married  Dec.  7,  1715,    Mary  Collins,  by  50  Mark  Haskki.U    was    horn     Septem- 

whom  he  had  the  following  children,  the  last  ber  [6,  1687,  in  Gloucester,  Mass..  and  in  170. 

two  of  whom  are  said  to  have  been  lost  at  sea  married    Martha   Tuthill  of    Ipswich,    Mass., 

together  in  1764:  vvi,ere    iie    resided    in    1729,    and  where  he 

John,  1..  Oct.  12,  17.'..  probably  died  in  .77s  or  6. 

Joshua,  b.  Aug,  20   T-v  '     ,,-     .;•,. ',„...,  „ 


Klin 
Benj 

b. 

111, 

\u$r. 

Ii.  Mi 

14, 

h  '2; 

M  ■<■ 
Tien 

ikf 

,1. 

1       . 

l,S, 

|  ' 

1  Ii' 

il'ei 

Lh 

b!  V 

'\ 

s.  1 

125      iii       l-.unii-e,  Ii.  April  3.1,  17JJ. 

1 2<>    iv     Sarah    b.  Oct.  10,  1 7 26. 

1  .'7     \        fosiah,  b.   Sept.     17,     1 
Elizabeth  Ch., ale  in  17.s7.u1ul  was  lost  «t  sea 
null  his  brother  Ailuniraiu. 


His  children  were  hum  as  follow: 


|6     . 

I'll 

tal  eth,  Ij 

17      'i 

Ma 

rtha,  b.  1 

.|S      ii 
49       h 

i       Ma 

rk,  b.  An 

:j  ,  1..  Ma 

!  ,     I) 


15.1     »iii    leniima,  h.  Sept.  27.  17.M";  d.Oet.  is.  1 7 -'  1 
■S-l     In      Oeorge.  b.  Aug.  3.  i7--<. ;•!.  Aug.  15,    '7-'"- 
51    VV'ir.i.iAM    IIaskri.u    was    born     Jan- 
uary 1,  1690,  and  resided  in  Gloucester,  Mass  , 
where  he  died  December   to,  1766,  aged  sev- 
,  entv-seven  years. 

He  was  a  selectman  of  the  town,  a  deacon 
of  the  second  church  for  mam  years,  and  in 
1736  .1  representative  to  the  general  court. 

lie  was  an  eminently  pious  man.  His  last 
broken  accents  were  heard  to  express  his 
lamentations  and  supplications  for  the  church 
< it"  Christ. 

He  married  Jemima  Hubbard,  who  died  in 
1762,3!  the  age  of  seventy-seven  years,  and 
by  whom  he  had  the  following  children. 

r.S5  1  leinima,  b.  M  irch  2,  i;i  ;;  A.  March  2, 
1735. 

136     ii      Job,  b.  April  27,  17c. 

157  iii  Comfort,  1).  May  28,  1717.  m.  Parker  Saw- 
yer, Nov.  in,  17.42,  and  A.  Sept.  5,  1809.  aged  ninety- 
two  >  ears. 

158  i>       Nathaniel,  b.  Jan.  16.  1719. 

159  v        Itubl)  ird,  b.  May  j,  17.'  1. 

160  vi      Klizabeth.  h.  Nov.  8   1723;  il.  Dec.  S,  1723. 
11. 1     vii     Willi. cu,  l>.  [an.  17.  I72f». 

162     viii  George,  b.  Keb.  to,  1729;  d.  ["'eh,   19,  1729. 
FOURTH  GKNERATION. 

.'\  52   Wir.t.tAM      H\ski:i.i.'      was      horn      in 

/  "•        1693,  and  resided  in  Gloucester,  Mass.,  where 
he  died  in  1752. 

He  married,  first,  a  wife  Abigail,  who  died 
February  2,  [737,  ami  next  Susannah,  prob- 
ably the  widow  of  Daniel  Parsons,  Septem- 
ber 12,  1739. 

Alter  his  death  his  wddow  removed  from 
the  second  parish  to  the  harbor  and  lor  sev- 
eral years  kept  a  boarding    house  011  Middle 

street. 

1  lis  children  were  horn  as  follows: 

l(»3     i        William,  b.  Dec.   to,  1719. 

I'M     ii       Abigail,  b.  ,  1721;  .1.  y. 

K.S     iii      Abigail,  b.  ,  [724;  d.  v. 

166     \\       Ward,  b.  ,  1734;  .1.  y. 

i'. 7     v       Susa-jnah,  b.  1  r  - 

i'.s     vi      Lucretia,  l>.  17.1". 

[69     vii     Ward,  b.  1740. 

17.,     viii    Anna,  b.  1743;    111.  Rev.   Thomas   I'iercc 
of  Scarborougb,  Me.,    Nov.    29,    1762,    who   was   vm- 
ploved  sometime  in  r.loucesler  .,-  a  sell  1  1I111 
fore  he  entered    the   ministry,    mid    w.is    prol 
hoarder  in    Vnna's  mother's  house. 

1 ;  1      i\       I'hilemon,  Ii,  1745. 

17.'     s        Nathaniel,  h.  ,717. 

17;     xi       Abigail,  Ii.  1748. 

53  Mark     Haskui.i.1    was     horn    August 

»  10,  1695,   resided    in    Gloucester,    Mass.  and 

subsequently   in    Attleboro,   Mass.,  and   was 

probably  the  Captain  Mark  Haskell  who  died 

at  the  age  of  eighty  years. 

He  had  a  wile  Jemima  with  whom  he  was 
dismissed  from  the  second  church  in  Glou- 
cester to  the  church  in  Attleboro,  Mass. 

A  schooner  belonging    to  Gloucester  com- 
manded by  Captain  Mark  Haskell  was  taken 
by  pirates  in  172  J. 
He  had  a^son. 

174     i      .Mark,  b.  1723. 


A  IMiRSON  \L  KAKATIYK. 

The  Life  History  ol  .1  California  IMoiiult 
l;roni  IM')  to  lsux 


The  great  burly  lubber  commenced  to  cry, 
but  he  took  off  his  coat.  I  had  no  occasion 
to  strike  him  again,  He  was  conquered,  lie 
promised  to  obey  the  rules  of  the  school  and 
during  the  balance  of  the  term  I  had  no  more 
obedient  scholar  in  school.  I  had  no  mote 
trouble  during  the    winter.     My    supremacy 

as  master  was  thoroughly     established. 

The  next  winter  I  taught  in  the  adjoining 
district,  one  mile  from  the  Center.  No 
trouble.  The  big  uirls  were  jolly.  Somejol 
them  were  seventeen  or  eighteen  years  of 
age,  and  1  w\s  quite  a  man.  Parties  weie 
the  rage  and  the  schoolmaster  was  the 
central  figure. 

The  next  winter  I  taught  in  the  northern 
part  of  the  Township  about  four  miles  from 
the  Center. 

Nothing  occured  worthy  of  note,  except 
perhaps  thai  I  became  a  little  sweet  with 
one  of  my  eldest  and  handsomest  pupils. 
You  may  know  that  it  was  nothing  very  per- 
manent as  I  have  already  forgotten  her 
name.     (It  was  Mary  Jane  Andrews.) 

My  cousin  who  afterwards  found  it  out 
and  who  was  "sweet"  on  me  about  that  time 
called  her  "Sorrel  Top  "  in  derision.  Well 
what  foolishness  have   I  been  writing? 

This  brings  me  down  to  the  summer  of 
1S40.  And  before  proceeding  further  allow 
me  my  dear  boy,  to  digress  for  a  moment  to 
place  upon  record  the  names  (  f  a  few  of  the 
choicest  friends  of  the  halcyon  period  ol  my 
schoolboy  days. 

In  obedience  to  a  natural  feel'ng  of  gal- 
lantry and  devotion  to  the  fair  sex  which  I 
inherited  from  my  forefathers,  I  shall  present 
first  the  female  portion  thereof. 

h'.llen  Moulton,  ward  of  Judge  Dudley 
Chase,  Member  of  Congress,  Governor  of  the 
Stale,  U.  S.  Senator,  and  finally  laid  upon 
the  shelf  as  I".  S.  Hist.  Judge.  She  was 
smart  witty  and  intellectual.  Altogether 
superior  —  married  Nate  Pennock.  A  pearl 
gobbled  up  by  a  biped. 

Mary  B.  Smith  — red  haired  Mary— daugh- 
ter of  John  Smith,  came  near  allowing  me  to 
kick  the  bucket"  at  the  age  of  fifteen  years. 
Dr.  Carpenter  of  blast  Randolph  was  the 
means  of  perpetuating  my  unworthy  exist- 
ence upon  this  mundane  sphere.  He  bled 
me  in  a  case  of  lung  fever  after  all  the  other 
doctors  had  given  me  up. 

But  to  return  to  Mary  B.  Smith.  She  was 
a  really  fine  x'n\ — married  Nat.  Pennock, 
brother  of  Nate  P.  who  scooped  up  lillen 
Moulton. 


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Catherine  Granger  married  Edward  East- 
man.—  Fair  nieath. 
Jane  Granger.  Oil  dear!!! 
Mary  Granger  -married  to  Dudley  Chase 
Blodgett,  nephew  of  Judge  Chase,— Blodgett 
was  afterward  District  Judge  in  Wisconsin 
residing  at  Oskosh. 

Angelin  Granger  married  a  schoolmate 
named  G.  A.  Arnold.  -No  connection  with 
the  t'elh.w  across  the  way— Benedict  A. 

Augusta  Maxine  married  my  cousin  E.  I>. 
Blodgett. 

Adeline  Reed  married  Azariah  Hyde, 
(Anna  says  she  would  hide  with  such  a 
name  i  Principal  of  the  Academy,  afterward 
Minister  of  the  Gospel. 

Mary  lane  Reed  Don't  know. 
Mary 'Riddle  Blodgett  married  my  chum 
D.  F.  Weymouth.— Dead.  Farewell  Mary. 
Then  there  was  Martha  Story,  married  to 
William  F.  Edson,  X.  O.  Pilot  on  the  Missis- 
sippi at  three  hundred  per  month.  I  hoarded 
with  them  in  St.  I.ouis.  She  is  now  liv- 
ing in  Oakland,  Cal. —  Husband  dead. 

Fanny  Story  married  her  cousin,  and 
nearly  squelched  Ben  Granger  who  was 
badly  in  love  with   her. 

l.avinia  llebliard.  sister  of  Alt'.  Hebbard, 
Merchant,  and  niece  of  William  Hebbard, 
Member  of  Congress    from   Yt. 

She  was  a  friend  and  companion  of 
my  mother  and  helper  in  the  household 
duties.  Sixteen  years  old,  she  lived  with  us 
two  or  three  years. 

Dudley  Chase  Blodgett,  Ben  Granger,]-. 
I).  Blodgett,  S.  S.  French,  [uslus  French,  D. 
K.  Smith.  D.  B.  Alvord,  \V.  11.  Smith,  Lau- 
rence Brainafd,  B.  T.  Blodgett  etc. 

The  Grangers  whose  father  failed  as  a 
merchant  finally  all  emigrated  to  Oskosh, 
Wis.  Their  residence  in  Randolph  was  the 
largest  and  most  pretenlous  in  the  village. 
Separate  parlors  foi  each  of  the  four  girls  to 
do  their  sparking  in.  The  remembrance  of 
those  happy  joyous  youthful  days  can 
never  be    effaced. 


A   SAMPLE     I.LITLK. 


Soiiicthi 


V  nul 


New      Hi 


There  is  a  Haskell  Peak  in  Sierra  County, 
California,  the  highest  mountain  in  that 
county,  the  elevation  of  which  is  over  eight 
thousand  feet.  It  was  named  after  the 
author  of  the  "Persona1  Narrative"  now  ap- 
pearing in  the  Journal.  From  its  crest 
tlow  the  richest  gold  bearing  rivers  the 
world  has  ever  seen;  the  Feather  river  rises 
upon  the  north  slope,  and  the  Yuba  river 
upon  the  south.  It  is  a  superstition  among 
old  California  miners  that  the  interior  of 
Haskell's  Peak  is  solid  gold.  The  mountain 
has  never  yet   been  thoroughly     prospecfed. 

There  is  said  to  be  four  or  live  toy.  lis  in 
the  United  States  named  Haskell.  The 
JOURNAL  would  like  the  details  of  each  one 
of  them  and  how  they   came  so    to  be  named. 


Xi-.w  Bum-nun,  Feb.  is. 
MR.  BllHNKTTK    O.    llASKlCI.t—  Dl-.\l<    Sik: 
As    1     am   only     a    member    of    the     Haskell 
family  by  marriage   I  cannot   give  you  much 
information    regarding    them.      1     was    veiy 
glad    to    receive    a   copy    ol    the     [oiUlial    and 
shall  wish  to  be  a  subscriber    to    Us  ■ 
I  am  interested    in   any    information  pertain- 
ing   to   the    family    name,  on    account     ol     111V 
children.     My     husband    (Edward    Haskell) 
who  died    in   the   year   iS—   was  the   son  of 
Calvin    and   Ann    Hersey    Haskell.     He  was 
one   of   several    children,  three    of    whom,  I 
think,     are     now     living,      lb       mother  died 
when  he    was   quite  young,  but    his  father  1 
have  met    several  times   at    his    home  in  Still 
water,  Mass.      lie   died    several    years   before 
my  husband.     My  husband's  youngest   sisu-r 
Helen)  lives  in  San  Francisco,  Mrs.  William 
11.  Raines,  fraternal   editor    61-62    St.    Anns 
Building,  residence  [903  Devisadero;  possibly 
you   may    have    met    her.     The    elder    sister 
(Sarah  Haskt-ll)  lives    in    Boston.  Mass.,  and 
can    be    found.  1    think,  at    9     Williugton  St. 
William  the    only    brother    living     I    think  is 
in     Cambridge    or    some    suburb    "I     Boston. 
He  is  the   only  one  living  who    has    a    son  — 
living    in    Xew     York  — Waller     Haskell     by 
name,  whose    address    1    can    get     tor    you  il 
von     wish.     Another    brother   (Alfred    Has 
kell  '    had    several   children    four   of    whom    1 
think     are     living.       l'rohabl>     Mrs.    Barnes 
can  give    you   more   correct   information  than 
I.      Mv  husband  had  a  son    by    his    first  wife 
who  was  Sarah    Clafflin    of  Pautucket,  R.  1. 
His  name   is   Oeorge    Edward,  and    he    is  at 
present  visiting  with  me  as  his  family  (wife 
and    three    children;  are    in     Dresden,    edu- 
cating the  two  girls — one    eleven    the    o'hci 
seven.     There  is  a   sou  just    a   year  old  ihe 
list    of    January,  born    in    Dresden— George 
Starkweather  Haskell.      I     have    two 
ters,  both  married.     The  eldest  Mary   Haskell 
married  a  Hersey,    living    in    St.   Paul,  Minn, 
and  the  younger    Helen     Haskell    married  a 
Mr.  Andrew  G.  Price,  Jr.,  and   lives  in   New 
Bedford    quite    near   myself.     Now,    I    may 
have  told    you    more   or    not    all    you  wish  to 
know.     1  cm  copy    from   the    Bristol  county 
book    an    article    about     mv    husband    which 
will  give    you    some    idea  of    his    ability  as  a 
business  man  and  his  general  characteristics. 
If    I    have    wearied     you    pray    pardon    me. 
You  will  find  enclosed  >2   for  subscription  ol 
1898.      If  this  is  not    its    first    year,]    would 
like    to    know    and    subscribe    for     • 
can  have    the    whole    tiling   for   my   children. 
Cordially   yours, 

I..    ]',.    II   \Slsl ■■!.,. 

345  Union  St.,  Xew  Bedford,  Mass. 


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Anything  written  of   the    mercantile    his- 
tory of  New    Bedford    would    be    incomplete 
without  something  more  ih.ui  a   mere   men- 
tion ol    Edward    Haskell,  one    for   so    many 
years  identified  with    its   business  interests. 
He  was  the  son   of    Deacon    Calvin    and  Ann 
(Hersey)  Haskell  and   was  horn  in  Stillriver, 
Ma        i  bout    [S28,  and  passed   his  early  life 
in  school,  but  on  account  of  the   business  re- 
verses of  his  lather  was  compelled  to  go  to 
work  early,  and  finally  was  in  the  employ  of 
a    Boston     firm,    tor    whom   he   came    to    New 
Bed  lord  as   a   young    man    to   dispose  of   a 
stock   "i    goods,  intending   only    to    remain  a 
short  time,  but  meeting  with  success  his  em- 
ployers concluded  to  keep  him  in  trade  here, 
especially  as  he  liked  the  place  and  found 
warm   friends.     In    [840    he    began    business 
for  himself  in   a  small   way   as  a  dry  goods 
merchant.     lie  was  successful,  full  of  energy 
and    very    popular,  and    after    a   year    or  so 
moved  across  the  street  to  the  middle  store  of 
the   number  lately   occupied   by    him.      Here 
Ins     business      rapidly       increased       and     he 
showed    remarkable     business    capacity    in 
securing  the  class  of  goods  most  saleable  and 
introduced     many    departments    not    strictly 
classed   as  dry  goods.     For    more  than  thirty 
years  Mr.  Haskell  continued   in   trade  on  the 
same  site  and  was  Compelled    to    enlarge    the 
capacity    of    his     premises    frequently     and 
finally      at      the      time      ol"      his      death- 
Dec,    nth,  1882— the   firm  of    Haskell  &  Co. 
formed    in     1876     occupied    four   stores    con- 
solidated into  one  large  emporium   of   trade. 
In  spite  Of  close  competition   Mr.  Haskell  had 
a  steady    advance    in     his    business    from  his 
very    lirst   day   of  trade   and   stood    for  years 
as    the    leading   representative    merchant   of 
New     Bedford.      He     married,     lirst,     Sarah 
Clafflinof  Pautucket,  R.  1.,  by  whom  he  had 
one    child    George     Edward,     lie    married, 
second,    Louisa     B.    only   daughter    of   Alex- 
ander II.  and    Louisa   (Crandell)  Seabury  of 
New    Bedford.      They    had    two   children— 
M:iry     Crandell     and      Helen     Parker.      Mr. 
Haskell   was    for    many    years    a     prominent 
and  active  member  of   the    North    Congrega- 
tional Church    and    was    one    of    its  deacons, 
and    for    eleven    years    superintendent  of  its 
nourishing  Sunday  school   in    which    he   was 
greatly     interested.      He    was   a   man    of    fine- 
taste  in  art,  was   a   rare   judge    ol'    paintings, 
statuary  and  other    kindred  works.      He  was 
very  fond    of  pets.      Had    a    great    fancy  for 
tine  horses,  pigeons,  etc..  and    raised  many  of 
them.        He     was     an     enthusiastic     lover   of 
flowers   and    engaged    with    all  the    ardor  of 
his     nature     in      horticulture.       Among     the 
lovers  01  and  cultivators  of  flowers  he  tool;  a 
high     rank,      lie     was     a     man     of     positive 
character     carrying     nearly     everything     lie 
undertook  to  completion. 


A   SU<  i<  iESTN  >\     AS    TO    THE    GENE- 
AL<  M  IICAL  REC<  >RDS  I  IF    1111-. 

Haskell  Family. 


INTRODUCTION. 

Second  only,  possibly  to  the  awful  mys- 
tery  of  life  itself,  nothing  is  mi, re  impossible 
of  comprehension  than  the  bewildering  facts, 
but  partially  revealed,  by  the  study  of  the 
origin  and  history  of  families. 

The  student  of  genealogy  who  attempts  an 
exhaustive  research  into  the  history  of  his 
past  generations,  soon  stands  appalled  at  the 
impossibility  of  ever  being  able  to  say  "it  is 
finished;"  but  even  this  feeling  soon  gives 
place  to  a  deeper  awe  as  he  traces  life  through 
generations  and  centuries,  and  finds  himself 
ever  asking  these  unanswerable  questions 
"What  is  life?  What  am  I?  Whence  came 
I?      Whither  am  I  going?" 

It  is  easy  to  say  "I  am  the  direct  descend- 
ant of  kings  or  nobles."  Yes,  but  that  is  not 
all.      From  whom  else  are  you  descended? 

The  mathematics  of  genealogy  are  oppres- 
sive in  their  magnitude.  Every  human  be- 
ing is  the  child  of  two  parents.  Each  of 
these  parents  also  had  two  parents.  Every 
human  being  has  had  four  grand-parents, 
and  eight  great  grand-parents.  Tracing  the 
generations  into  the  past  centuries,  it  will  be 
found  that  every  human  being  had,  in  the 
10th  generation  back,  512  ancestors;  in  the 
15th  generation,  over  sixteen  thousand -an- 
cestors; in  the  21st  generation,  over  one  mill- 
ion: while  still  further  back,  the  numbers  in- 
crease so  marvelous  a  rapidity  that  it  can  be 
shown  that  not  far  back  of  the  Christian  era, 
every  human  being  now  living,  had,  at  that 
time,  more  ancestors  than  ever  lived  on  this 
entire  globe  at  one  time. 

The  explanation  of  this  seeming  paradox 
is  one  which  should  temper  the  boastings  of 
the  most   aristocratic    scion    of    the    proudest 

No  man  has  the  right  to  classify  himself  as 
exclusively  the  son  of  his  father,  nor  of  his 
mother.  Every  human  being  has  in  his  body, 
and  in  his  mind,  some  trace  —  infinitely  at- 
tenuated though  it  may  be — of  all  the  ances- 
tors who  have  gone  before  him.  As  the 
race  goes  on,  the  inheritance  from  the  more 
recent  ancestors  suppresses,  overshadows, 
diminishes,  'out  never  eradicates,  the  influ- 
ences ol  the  remoter  parents. 

Going  back  to  that  point  where  the  cal- 
culated number  of  a  man's  ancestors  ex- 
ceeded that  of  the  earth's  entire  population, 
it  is  manifest  that  the  people  then  living 
were  the  common  ancestors  of  a  very  large 
proportion  of  all  the  people  existing  at  the 
present    time.     And,  conversely,    ol    course, 


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it  is  manifest  that  :i  very  large  proportion  of 
nil  the  people  now  living  are  descended  from 
common  ancestors.  To  illustrate:  —  A  man 
may  have  three  brothers— children  of  a  com- 
mon fathei  and  mother.  It  his  father  and 
mother  each  had  three  brothers  who  each 
had  four  sons,  he  would  have  :\  lousins, 
who,  with  himself  and  brothers,  would  make 
28  persons  descended  from  two  pairs  of 
grand-parents.  But,  in  addition  to  this,  each 
set  of  cousins  would,  through  their  mothers, 
be  descended,  with  still  other  cousins  Irom 
common  maternal  grand-parents.  Ami  so 
the  skein  of  life  is  woven  and  interwoven, 
far  more  intricately  than  are  the  threads  in 
the  finest  lace;  until  it  mas'  he  stated  as  an 
axiom,  that  somewhere,  prehaps  only  a  few 
generations,  perhaps  ages  ago;  perhaps  once; 
perhaps  many  times;  the  ancestral  thread  of 
every  human  being  hascrossed  that  of  every 
other  human  being;  and.  obnoxious  as  it  may 
seem  to  us,  the  most  exalted  monarch  and 
li.e  meanest  beggar  have  had,  somewhere,  a 
common  source  of  life. 

A  brief  contemplation  of  the  thoughts 
iicre  suggested,  will  show  the  utter  futility 
of  any  living  being  attempting  to  make  a 
complete,  or  even  reasonably  complete,  re- 
cord of  his  ancestry  back  into  the  indefinate 
past  ol  the  middle  ages;  and  of  the  equal 
futility  of  attempting  to  name  locate  and 
classity  all,  or  a  respectable  proportion  of  all 
the  descendants  of  an  ancestor  who  lived  a 
thousand  years  ago. 

Those  Americans  who  are  the  descendants 
of  the  imigrautsof  the  17th.  century,  find,  in 
the  transplanting  of  the  family  from  the  Old 
to  the  Xe>.  world,  a  natural  and  convenient 
dividing  point  between  the  search  for  an- 
cestry and  the  classification  of  posterity. 

For  unknown  centuries  the  transmission 
of  life  had  gone  on  which  finally  resulted  in 
the  birth  of  him  who  was  first  called  by  the 
name  which,  through  natural  changes  in 
philology,  has  now  become  Haskku.. 
Though  the  faniilv  Life  did  not  originate 
with  him,  the  t.niiily  name  began  there;  and 
I  lie  beginning  ol  the  name  is  the  practical 
genesis  of  the  family   history. 

This  first  of  the  name  married.  His  chil- 
dren married.  Their  sons,  marrying,  con- 
stantly blended  new  blood  with  their  own, 
am!  handed  the  name  down  through  their 
sons.  This  constant  converging  of  life 
streams  eventually  resulted  in  the  birth,  at 
,  of Haskell,   in     the   year,  A.    D. 

This Haskell  had  three    sons,   Roger, 

William  and  Mark,  who  crossed  the  Atlantic 
in  1632,  and  made  a  first  settlement  in 
Beverly,      Kssex      County,      Massachussetts. 

hrom  these  three  brothers  are  descended  all 
Americans  bearing  the  name     Haskell. 

Tiie  recording  of  the  family  history,  as 
here  suggested,     naturally  divides    itself  into 


two  epochs.  First,  the  recording  and  classi- 
fication, through  the  male  line,  of  all  the  de- 
ScendentS  >>!  these  three  brothers:  thus  giv- 
ing a  record,  as  complete  as  may  be,  of  all 
the  Haskells  born  in  America.  And.  sec- 
ondly, starling  with  the  father  of  these 
three  brothers,  and  tracing  back  to  the  ear- 
liest possible  date,  his  ancestry;  following 
the  paternal  line  with  most  particular  care; 
but  showing  also,  as  far  as  possible,  the 
maternal  lines,  from  which,  as  truly  as  from 
the  Haskells,  the  race  has  come. 

The  objects  to  be  obtained  .  a  lid  the  reasons 
fordesiring  them  having  been  shown;  a 
readier  comprehension  of  the  records  ami 
scheme  of  classification  will  be  had  by  a 
study  of  the  following:  — 


(.i-\K  \i.< 


5  with 
Mark 


The  American  genealogy    com 

the  three  brothers,   R^ger,   Willia 

as  the  first  generation,  and    woiks  forward  to 

the  present  time. 

The  Pre-American  records  commence  with 
the  father  of  these  three  brothers,  as  the  lirst 
generation,  and  works  back  into  the  shadows 
of  the  remote  past. 

A  simple  diagram  will  illustrates  this  divi 
sion  of  the  family  records;  showing  how  the 
rays  of  the  family  life  in  the  Old'  world  are 
focused  down  to  a  common  point;  and,  from 
that  point,  crossed  the  Atlantic,  and  diffused 
themselves  over  the  American    Continent:— 

Por  convenience,  and  as  being  ol  more  im- 
mediate interest,  the  American  genealogy  is 
made  the  lirst  section  of  the  family  history 
in  this  article. 

There  are  several  distinct  methods  of  class 
ifying  and  designating  the  members  ol  a 
large  family  descending  from  a  common  an- 
cestor' and  it  may  be  stated  that  no  know 
system  of  numeration  will  exactly  suit  the 
individual  requirements  or  tastes  ot  every 
member  of  the  family.  Broadly  speaking. 
there  aie  two  principal  methods  of  genealog- 
ical record.  One  is  in  the  direct  line  .  f 
eldest  male  descent.  beginning  with  the 
founder  of  the  family,  showing  his  children 
then  showing  the  children  of  the  eldesl  son; 
then  the  children  of  the  eldest  grand  son; 
and  so  on  in  this  way  until  the  present  time 
is  reached;  and  then  going  back  again  to  the 
founder,  and  following  the  line  of  descent 
from  the  second  son.  To  those  who  happen 
to  be  descended  from  an  unbroken  line  id' 
eldest  sons,  this  method  is  very  attractive; 
but.  to  the  great  majority,  the  handling  of 
their  ancestral  skein  in  this  manner,  results 
in  a  tangle  rather  than  in  the  desired  un- 
raveling. 

The  other  principal  method  of  arrange- 
ment, and  the  one  which  is  used  in  this 
article,   is   the     classification     by  generations. 

The  original  three  brothers,  Roger.  Wil- 
liam and  Mark,     are  lirst  show  11     as  the    first 


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generation.  Then  all  of  their  children,  com 
mencing  with  Roger's  eldest,  and  ending 
with  Mark's  youngest,  are  shown  as  the 
second  generation.  The  grand  children  com- 
pose the  third  generation,  anil  so  <>n.  The 
majority  of  the  Haskells  now  living  (1898) 
in  middle  life,  are  members  of  the  9th  and 
loth  generations  of  American  Haskells. 

This  system  of  numeration  and  designation 
here  used,  may  he  called  Digital  and  Deci- 
mal. The  members  of  the  first  generation 
are  designated  by  units.  Those  in  the  sec- 
ond generation,  by  tens.  Those  in  the 
third  generation,  by  hundreds,  etc.  Starting 
with  the  first  generation,  the  designations 
are:  1.  Roger  Haskell,  2.  William  Haskell, 
v  Mark  Haskell.  Following,  for  illustration, 
the  descendents  of  William  Haskell,  we  find 
that  he  had  nine  children.  These  children 
are  numbered,  as  children  of  their  father, 
with  the  Roman  numerals  I  to  IX,  in  order 
of  their  birth.  But  as  the  record  follows 
only  the  male  line,  the  sons  only  are  given 
a  permanent  genealogical  number.  Of  these 
nine  children,  live  were  sons.  The  general 
genealogical  number  of  each  of  these  sons  is 
formed  by  adding  the  number  denoting  the 
order  of  his  birth,  as  a  son,  in  his  father's 
family,  to  his  father's   genealogical    number, 

William  Haskell's  number,  as  before- 
shown,  was  2.  He  had  live  sons,  born  in  the 
following  order:  1.  William;  2.  Joseph;  3. 
Benjamin;  4.  John;  5.  Mark.  Adding  these 
numbers  to  the  number  of  their  father  we 
have  the  following  designations  for  the  sons 
of  William  Haskell,  viz:  21,  William;  22, 
Joseph;  23,   Benjamin;  24,  John;  25,  Mark. 

Following  up  this  last  named  Mark,  we 
hud  that  he  had  three  sons;  whose  designa- 
tions we  obtain  by  simply  adding  1.  2  or  3,  as 
the  ease  may  be,  to  their  father's  number  25, 
giving  the  numbers  251,  252  and  253.  as  the 
genealogical  designations  of  these  members 
of  the  third  generation. 

Summarized: — Each  digit  in  a  genealogical 
designation  represents  a  generation.  The 
digit  at  the  extreme  left  of  the  number  repre- 
sents one  of  the  original  brothers.  The  digit 
at  the  extreme  right  of  the  number  represents 
the  order  of  male  birth  in  his  father's  family, 
ol  the  person  represented  by  the  entire  num- 
ber. Cutting  off  the  right-hand  digit  of  any 
subject's  number,  leaves  his  lather'.,  number. 

Take,  for  example,  Samuel  Spring  Haskell, 
born  1S0S.  His  genealogical  number  is  2,- 
533.214.  There  are  seven  digits  in  this  num- 
ber, which  shows  he  is  of  the  seventh  gen- 
eration. Commencing  at  the  right-hand  digit, 
and  reading  to  the  left,  it  is  seen  that  he  is 
the  fourth  son,  of  the  first  son,  of  the  second 
son,  of  the  third  son,  of  the  third  son,  of  the 
fifth  son,  of  the  original  number  2,  who  was 
William  Haskell  of  the  lirst  generation. 

To  preserve  the  decimal  system,  and  pro- 
vide for  the  few  cases  where  there  were  more 


Thus, 


illo\ 


who  could  be  cared  for  by 
rbitrary  signs  have  been 
ite  numbers  higher  than 
iresented    in    each 


4th        "        .,-  [2th         ' 

5th      "      .v  13th       "      S. 

6th      "      6.  14th       "      |:. 

7th      "      7.  isth       "        ,. 

8th      "      s.  [6th       '•      .v. 

Reference  to  this  tabic  will,  of  course,  be 
necessary  to  distinguish  the  significance  of 
the  arbitrary  signs  used  for  the  numbers 
above  ten;  but  the  cases  in  which  there  were 
more  than  ten  sons  in  a  family  are  so  rare 
that  annoyance  from  this  source  can  hardly 
be  of  frequent  occurrence. 

In  the  records,  the  figures  in  the  extreme 
left-hand  column  indicate  the  page  on  which 
the  record  of  the  father  of  the  subject  may 
be  found,  and  the  numbers  in  the  next 
column  give  the  page  on  which  will  be  found 
the  record  of  the  children  of  the  subject. 
FOR  I'ART  2.  Till-  PRR-AMEKICAN  FAMILY. 
The  system  used  is  the  same  in  principle, 
though  differing  slightly  in  detail.  Tin  gen- 
erations are  designated,  as   before,  by  dibits. 

The    record    starts    with  Haskell,   the 

father  olthe  three  American  pioneers.  He, 
with  his  wife,  comprises  the  first  generation 
of  European  Haskells.  He  is  numbered  1, 
his  wife  2.  For  each  additional  generation 
—  going  backward  from  son  to  father,  and 
father  to  grand-father,  it  must  be  remem- 
bered—  another  digit  must  be  added  to  the 
designation  of  the  later  generation.  As  each 
subject  can,  however,  have  but  two  parents, 
but  two  digits  are  used  in  this  entire  record. 
The  digit  1,  always  represents  a  male;  and 
the  digit  2,  always  represents  a  female  an- 
cestor. 

For  illustration:— If  the  author  of  this  sys- 
tem of  numeration    were  arranging    his  own 
ancestry,  commencing    with   himself:  his  rec- 
ord, for  four  generations,  would  be  as  follows: 
1.   Frank  W.  Haskell,          b.   ism.     1st  generation 


!2.    Harriet  l-lls  Steele, 
in.  Samuel  Spring  Haskell,  1) 
112.   Eliza  Brown, 

[21.    IVre/  SilllUIOnS  Steele,     " 

[22.  Polly  Ells, 
Mil.   Hubbard  Haskell,  b. 

1112.  Anna  Bullock, 
1121.  James  Brown, 
[122,  Mari   Daiiforlb, 

121 1.  Aaron  Steele, 

1212.  Betsy  Ives, 
1221.  lames  Ellis, 
rj«    Pollv  Harner. 


.general- 


8     Ui  general! 


The  system  is  exceedingly  simple.  The 
number  of  digits  represents  the  number  of 
generations,  counting  backwards.  1,  always 
means  a  male  and  a  father.      2,  always  means 


44 


nil'    HASKELL  loi'RX.V 


a  female  and  a  mother.  An  unbroken  line  of 
male  Haskells,  carrying  the  name,  would  be 
represented  by  an  unbroken  line  of  t's.  The 
designation  r  121 2,  for  instance,  would  mean 
that  the  subject  so  designated  was  the  mother 
of  the  lather  of  the  mother  of  the  father  of 
the  original  subject,  or  starting  point  ol  the 
line. 

INDEX.       FIRST   PART. 


ADVERTISEMENT. 


st.  Generation:  Commences  with    Roger  II 
11.1  c  cods  with  Mark   Haskell,  11 

ration      Commences    with  Haskel! 

ends     with Haskell,     1(1     .     Ami 

irough  the  generations. 

fiy  Christian    names  (Small  Romans 

generations,  1  rdinarj   figures  denote  p 


iskell 


Aaron. 

1 ;  26. 

IV 

I".  53 

57 

VII 

s.,. 

91. 

Ben  jam 

11.   I; 

IS,  "7 

.     II; 

1.  - 

2,  24. 

etc. 

etc. 

j.  A'amt's 

./  Fa 

nilie 

intern 

a)  > 

'  1  lit 

■Hash 

lis. 

Adams; 

26,  2M 

0. 

Brown; 

6,  18, 

25,   37- 

(ones;  - 

;.  24, 

2>S,  ;, 

.  57,  1. 

S,   Ii) 

21,2 

;.  - 1. .; 

el 

•  ,  et 

Summ 

iry  0 

f  the 

numl 

ier 

of  pc 

rsoi 

s  loci 

ted 

in  this  1  eci  'i '1 

Mali 

l-ema 

Total. 

INDEX,      si 
ig  the  tot:il  iumiiIm 


Thi 


arrangements  with  one  of  the  best  steel  die 
cutters  ami  engravers  in  the  United  States, 
and  as  well  with  a  designer,  and  is  prepared 
to  furnish  members  of  the  Haskell  family 
anything  in  that  line  that  may  be  desired. 
Speeial  prices  are  made  as  follows: 

Km  a  steel  die  of  the  crest  for  stationary; 
"on  a  mount  an  apple  tree  fructed,  with  a 
erest  motto  frtictus'  and  the  arrow,"  eight 
dollars. 

heir  a  plain  engraving  of  the  coat  nf  arms 
and  erest,  the  arms  either  vair  argent  et  sable, 
or  charged  with  the  Osbern  bend  and  fesse, 
but  without  supporters,  but  with  the  motto, 
eight  dollars 

Same  as  above  but  without  supporters,  two 
leopards  rampant  regardant,  and  with  the 
mantlings,  ten  dollars. 

A  large  si/e  eoat  of  arms  complete,  suitable 
for  framing,  either  with  or  without  the  Os- 
bern charge  and  with  both  mottoes,  clone  in 
gold  silver  and  colors,  twenty-live  dollars,  all 
hand  work. 

As  each  of  these  mottoes  are  questions  of 
hand  work,  orders  cannot  be  filled  until  at 
least  twenty  days  alter  receipt  of  the  money 
therefor,  which  invariably  must  be  paid  in 
advance. 

Send  all  orders  to  the  Journal  office. 


In  this  second  part,  in  tracing  back,  it  will 
be  almost  certain  that  cases  will  be  found 
where  cousins  of  some  degree  have  married 
with  each  other.  Tins  will  decrease  the  cal- 
culated number  in  the  remoter  generations; 
and  would  duplicate  the  records  if  fully  car- 
ried out.  A  brief  note  to  the  effect  that  No. 
121  1  is  the  same  person  as  the  previously 
noted  1  111,  and  will  hereafter  be  designated 
as  1  111,  and  his  ancestors  built  up  on  the 
1  111  designation  would  clear  the  air  in  that 
respect. 


Among  other  interesting  di  cuments  that 
we  have  received  is  the  diary  of  Caleb  Has- 
kell from  May  5,  1775,  until  May  30,  1776, 
being  a  Revolutionary  soldier's  record  before 
Boston  and  with  Arnold's  Quebec  expedition, 
edited  with  notes  by  I.othrop  Witbington 
and  published  at  Newbury  port  by  Win.  H. 
Huse  &  Co.,  in  1881.  The  whole  diary  which 
is  of  extreme  interest  and  of  historical  im- 
portance will  be  published  hereafter  in  the 
JOURNAL  in  installments.  It  presents  a 
graphic  picture  of  the  times,  the  manners 
and  the  men  ot  those  davs,  and  the  notes  of 
Mr.  Witbington  show  "that  Caleb  Haskell 
did  his  share  in  those  two  historic  expeditions. 


THE  HASKELL  COMPANY- 
Although  absolutely  unannounced  by 
circular  or  otherwise,  the  January  number 
of  the  Journal  met  with  an  astonishing  suc- 
cess, and  a  cordial  support  and  appreciation. 
The  returns  arriving  from  the  February 
number  show  a  great  and  growing  and  in- 
creasing interest.  From  the  suggestions 
gathered  from  the  hundreds  of  correspond- 
ents, the  editor  of  the  JOURNAL  feels  that 
there  is  a  general  demand  within  our  name 
race  and  blood  for  an  organization  which 
shall   knit  us  together  in  closer  bonds. 

Some  thought  has  been  given  to  this  mat- 
ter and  the  suggestion  is  thrown  out  now  to 
the  effect  that  an  organization  be  formed  of 
all  of  us  of  this  tribe  upon  this  rolling  earth 
who  are  willing  to  stand  together,  and  work 
together,  to  support  each  other,  to  patronize 
each  other  and  to  consolidate  this  particular 
branch  of  human  race.  It  is  aptly  suggested 
by  one  correspondent  that  there  is  no  reason 
why  we  should  longer  be  one  of  the  lost 
tribes  of  Israel.  The  editor  of  the  Journal 
would  be  pleased  to  hear  personally  from 
each  of  you  upon  this  matter  and  will  note 
the  conclusions  arrived  at    in  our  next    issue. 


It  is  said  that  there  is  a  Haskell  Island  mi 
Casco  Hay,  near  Oir's  [slf.nd,  Maine.  Who 
knows  anything  about  it  and  can  give  us  de- 
scriptions and   photographs? 


RNAL 


15 


T  H  B. 


Haskell  Journal 


A  G<  M,  ilofjicnl  Journal  representing  fiftj  cliflcn  nl 


:  in:  o    11  \>k  i  i  i 


BOARD  OF  PUBLICATION 
John  Leland  Haskell.  President,  2219  Van  Ness  Ave 
D.  H.  Haskell,  20  Sansome  St.,  Cal.  Woolen  Mills, 
R.  R.  Haskell,    115  Kearney  St.,     Diamond  Merchant. 
B.  G.  Haskell,    1346  Market  St.,  Attorney. 


MARCH.  1S98. 


DELAY. 


The  delay  in  the  issuance  of  the  March 
number  of  the  Hati. 1:1.1.  Journal  which 
will  put  it  over  until  the  middle  of  April  is  a 
matter  which  the  editor  regrets  hut  which  he 
cmdd  not  obviate.  So  much  matter  has  been 
received,  so  much  careful  selection  has  to  he 
made,  so  much  work  had  to  he  clone,  so  much 
careful  revision  of  copy  and  proofs  had  to 
lie  attended  to  that  the  work  has  been  ab- 
solutely beyond  the  power  of  our  present 
force  to  get  out  upon  time.  In  addition  to 
that  there  has  been  some  trouble  with  the 
typographical  trades  of  San  Francisco  which 
has  assisted  the  delay.  If  the  various  corre- 
spondents of  the  Journal  will  promptly  and 
at  once  attend  to  the  suggestions  sent  to 
them  in  the  personal  letter  written  to  them 
l>>  the  editor  we  may  hope  to  catch  up  with 
the  calendar  by  next  month.  Meanwhile 
every  subscriber  is  assuted  that  the  Joi  \.\  \i. 
is  a  success  and  is  going  to  go  ahead. 

AUNT   HITTY    HASKELL. 

The  magnificent  address  of  Wendell  Phil- 
lips, published  concerning  Aunt  llitty  Has- 
kell, which  was  referred  to  on  page  23  of  the 
February  number  of  the  Journal,  is  pub- 
lished in  full  in  this  issue.  It  is  worthy  of 
careful  reading,  of  preservation  and  deep 
an.!     erious  thought. 

When  such  splendid  and  magnificent 
words  are  written  by  so  great  a  man  con- 
cerning one  of  us,  we  should    hi-  glad  indeed. 

Col.  !•;.  !•;.  Haskell,  U.  S.  Engineer  Officer 
at  Detroit.  Mich.,  is  one  of  the  most  earnest 
supporters  of  the  Journal. 


THE  "MAINE." 

Thomas  Haskell,  who  was  horn  in  1690  in 
Gloucester,  Massachusetts,  and  who  lived  in 
what  is  now  known  as  Portland,  Maine,  and 
who  died  there  in  1 7 s 5 ,  aged  ninety-five 
years,  was,  as  shown  upon  another  page,  dis- 
tinguished in  having,  so  far  as  we  know,  ten 
children,  seventy  eight  grandchildren,  fifty- 
eight  great  grandchildren  and  a  numerous 
and  increasing  other  list  of  descendants. 
The  intermarriages  of  the  Haskclls  of  Maine 
were  numerous,  and  out  of  a  list  of  the  brave 
and  heroic  seamen  and  officers,  who  lately 
perished  through  treachery  upon  that  mag- 
nificent battle-ship,  named  alter  their  native 
state.  1  note  do/ens  of  names  connected  with 
us  collaterally. 

It  gees  without  saying  that  not  only  his 
hut  all  other  descendants  stand  ready  to  do 
their  duty  in  the  present  threatening  stated 
affairs. 


The  announcement  was  made  in  the  Feb- 
ruary number  by  the  editor  to  the  dint  that 
after  this  present  issue  of  March.,  no  further 
JOURNALS  can  he  sent  to  those  who  have  not 
forwarded  their  subscription.  This  rule  will 
be  rigidly  enforced.  The  accession  of  new 
subscribers  from  the  hundreds  and  hundreds 
of  letters  received  has  been  such  that  we  can 
no  longer  afford  to  keep  Upon  the  dead- 
head list  any  people  who  have  not  responded. 
It  is  a  further  notice  that  unless  the  sub- 
scription price  of  the  JOURNAL  is  remitted  im- 
mediately upon  the  receipt  of  this  number 
that  the  name  will  he  stricken    from   our   list. 

While  we  feel  that  every  Haskell  in  the 
United  States  ought  to  have  a  copy  of  the 
Jot  RNAL  yet  we  do  not  feel  that  we  can 
bear  the  whole  burden. 

A  fair  warning  is  now  given  that  after  the 
April  numbei  it  will  he  impossible  to  supply 
either  the  January  or  February  numbers,  ex- 
cept by  personal  correspondence  with  peo- 
ple  wdio  have    already    seemed    extra    copies. 


The  Journal  calls  especial  attention  to 
the  artistic  portrait  and  the  biography  of 
hid  win  Bradbury  Haskell,  which  appears  as 
our  leading  feature  in  this  issue.  \Ve  have 
reason  to  he  proud  of  our  name  in  every  oc- 
cupation whether  they  are  officers  of  the  U. 
S.  army  ready  to  defend  our  honor,  attorneys 
ready  to  secure  justice,  journalists  capable 
of  speaking  the  truth  or  ministers  of  the  gos- 
pel showing  us  the  road  to  the  better  land. 


A  number  of  the  Haskell  people  are  con- 
sidering  the  advisability  of  buying  in  hulk  a 
certain  amount  of  unimproved  San  Francisco 
property  fur  homes  tor  themselves,  believing 
that  they  can  thus  reduce  the  cost  one  hun- 
dred or  two  hundred  per  cent.  This  move 
is  a  good  move  and  the  Joi  UNA  I.  w  isli  s  it 
success.     All  Haskclls  should  cooperate. 


4° 


THE   HASKELL  JOURNAL 


A   SKETCH. 

John  P.  Cosgrovu  foi  long  years  editor  of 
the  Stockton  A/ail  and  since  then  connected 
with  the  leading  metropolitan  dailies,  special 
Commissioner  of  the  C«//ofSan  Francisco  to 
the  last  National  Convention  and  who  shares 
with  Ambrose  Bieree  and  Arthur  McEwen 
the  lienor  of  being  one  of  our  most  forceful 
writers, — in  the  news  columns  of  the  Daily 
San  Francisco  Call  of  May  n,  1896,  two 
years  ago,  had  this  to  say,  which  may  be  of 
some  interest  to  some  of  nur  readers,  and 
which  is  published  on  account  of  repeated 
insistence. 

(Sacramento  Correspondence  from  the  S.  I-'.  Call 
Maj    ii.  is.," 

"One  of  the  leading  features  of  the  Popu- 
list convention  is  t  he  galaxy  of  reformers  w  ho 
will  be  in  attendance,  many  of  whom  have 
picturesque  histories.  Foremost  among  these 
is  Burnette  G .  Haskell,  soldier,  lawyer,  orator, 
revolutionist  and  socialist.  This  man  has  a 
history.  He  is  past  30  and  is  of  medium 
height  and  dresses  neatly.  There  is  nothing 
particular  about  his  appearance  to  attract  the 
attention  of  the  observer,  save  his  large  blue 
eyes,  which  stand  prominently  forward.  His 
enunciation  is  clear  and  distinct,  his  language 
well  chosen,  his  sentences  rounded  and  at 
times  gilded  with  eloquence. 

This  man  has  not  only  a  history,  but  an 
eventful  one.  Much  that  is  ill  has  been  re- 
ported about  him  by  his  enemies;  they  have 
accused  him  of  insincerity,  of  demagogery 
and  of  a  desire  to  turn  the  progaganda  of  re- 
form to  his  own  aggrandizement.  His  friends 
as  vehemently  deny  these  accusations.  They 
point  to  sacrifices  made  in  behalf  of  what 
they  believe  to  be  the  cause  of  humanity; 
they  tell  of  days  and  nights  of  labor  organiz- 
ing socialistic  sections,  labor  unions  and  trade 
federations  without  salary  and  even  without 
the  hope  of  reward;  for  the  cause  in  which  he 
spoke  and  toiled  had  neither  wealth  nor  in- 
fluence at  its  back,  and  was  looked  upon  as 
one  lather  to  be  kept  under  surveillance  by 
the   police. 

He  was  a  socialist  when  socialists  were  as 
scarce  as  tramps  and  millionaries,  more  than 
a  decade  and  a  half  ago.  He  was  a  Nation- 
alist long  before  lidward  Bellamj  wrote 
'Looking  Backward.'  He  was  a  populist  long 
before  the  'party  of  a  hundred  planks'  had 
begun  to  sprout  among  the  palmettoes  of  the 
south  and  the  corn  shocked  prairies  of  the 
west.  But  Nationalism  had  grown  to  be  a 
lanky,  loose  jointed  boy,  with  the  down  on 
his  upper  lip  feebly  palpable  to  the  fostering 
linger  before  Burnette  G.  Haskell,  !  evolu- 
tionist ami  socialist  sickened  to  the  task  of 
casting  pearls  before  swine,  threw  down  the 
red  Hag  at  Kaweah,  and  admitted  what  some 
of  his  less  fiery  associates  had  discovered  be- 
fore—that the' socialist  temple  col','-  lit  be 
built  with  selfish,  thriftless,  shiftles:        11  and 


women,  and  that  it  would  require  perhaps 
centuries  of  intellectual  and  moral  evolution 
before  the  world  would  be  ready  for  the  real- 
ization of  the  daydream  of  Karl  Marx  and 
Ferdinand  Lassalle. 

He  had  given  socialism,  or  compulsory  co- 
operation, a  fugitive  test  in  the  mountains  of 
Tulare,  and  had  found  that  churches  did  not 
make  religion  and  that  lecture  halls  did  not 
make  philosophers,  lb-  had  told  in  burning 
words  how  in  the  beautiful  davs  to  come  man 
should  cease  to  be  master  of  man;  how  pov- 
erty should  no  longer  rack  the  wearied  limbs 
with  pain,  or  tear  the  tatters  off  the  drudge's 
back  and  blue  him  with  the  icy  gale.  He 
hul  told  how  men  and  women  should  be  as 
one  family  of  brothers  and  sisters,  as  Cod  de- 
signed, and  live  in  peace  ami  happiness  in 
the  age  of  gold,  when  sorrow  and  want 
should  be  no  more.  And  having  told  all 
these  things,  he  awoke  to  find  all  on  his  lip-. 
the  salt  ashes  of  disappointment  and  of 
wasted  opportunity. 

He  found  that  socialistic  sisters  would  gos- 
sip and  backbite  as  well  as  the  followers  of 
mammon;  that  socialistic  men  would  evade 
their  common  duties  ami  shirk  their  common 
work,  and  that,  like  wolves,  when  one  of 
their  number  is  hurt  or  sick  unto  death  lie- 
is  fallen  upon  by  the  whole  pack  and  torn  to 
pieces.  So  the  discontented,  the  cranky,  the 
pessimistic,  turned  upon  Haskell  and  every 
one  else  connected  with  their  colony,  and 
the  uproar  of  their  contention  was  so  great 
that  the  outer  world  heard  it  and  scoffed  at 
the  reformers. 

Sick  at  heart  with  the  outcome  of  the  co- 
operative experiment,  following  so  closely 
upon  the  failure  of  the  Topolobampo  scheme, 
Haskell  turned  his  steps  toward  the  electric 
lights  of  the  great  city  by  the  ocean  and  re- 
sumed the  practice  of  law.  Hut  his  old  love 
would  not  be  shaken  off  and  he  joined  the 
populists.  Their  platform  was  not  as  social- 
stic  as  he  would  have  wished,  but  there  was 
the  Governmental  ownership  and  control  of 
railroads,  the  currency  question,  the  refer- 
endum and  direct  legislation,  all  true  blue- 
socialistic  doctrines. 

In  the  meantime,  many  of  his  former  asso- 
ciates, now  with  the  populists,  have  their 
knives  bared  lor  him  should  he  attempt -to 
take  a  prominent  part  in  the  convention,  as 
he  will  undoubtedly  try  to  do.  Haskell  has 
the  trick  of  eloquence  an  1  has  often  carried 
hostile  legions  off  their  feet  by  the  torrent  of 
forceful  words,  but  his  prestige  has  waned. 
and  it  will  be  an  uphill  fight  for  him  to  get 
up  to  the  head  of  the  class  again,  a-  even  t  lie- 
Coast  Seamen's  Union,  the  socialistic  consti- 
tution of  which  Haskell  had  a  large  share  in 
making,  contains   main-  of   his    bitter.-'    foes 

The  Haskell  episode  will  be  one  of  the  hot 
features  (,f  the  convention." 

It  might  be  interesting  to   state    that     Has- 


Till-    HASK1 


kell  did  take  n  prominent  jm ri  in  the 
vention,  was  a  leading  spirit  on  the  pi: 
committee  and  did  succeed  in  every  ligl 
year  to  which  he  was  pledged  orin  wh 
engaged. 


JOSEPH     THEODORE    HASKELL- 

The  Haskell  Journal  lias  received  a 
number   of   hooks    in    connection     with    the 

Haskell  history  which  are  of  exceeding  in- 
terest ami  a  large  proportion  of  which  will 
be  hereafter  more  fully  investigated  and 
commented  upon.  Among  them  is  a  inanu  il 
of  the  General  Assemble  of  the  Ohio  L-egis 
lature  for  189495.  This  contains  a  brief 
biography  of  one  of  our  people  which  is  of 
some  interest,  and  we  therefore  quote  it  in 
full: 

Joseph  Theodore  Haskell,  Representative 
from  I.orain  county,  was  horn  at  North  An- 
son, Maine,  on  the  13th  day  of  November, 
[845.  He  moved  with  his  parents  to  Car- 
lisle, I.orain  county,  Ohio,  when  he  was 
three  years  o\  age.  He  lived  in  Oberlin  and 
Huntington,  Lorain  county  until  he  enlisted 
in  the  United  States  Army,  Co.  11.,  2d  ().  V. 
Y.  C,  in  February,  1S64,  being  at  that  time 
eighteen  years  ol  age,  and  was  mustered  out 
with  his  company  and  regiment  at  Benton 
Barracks,  Missouri  in  September,  1865,  He 
taught  school  for  ten  years  alter  his  return 
from  the  array,  and  was  engaged  in  the  busi- 
ness of  dairy  farming  in  Huntington  until 
his  removal  with  his  family  to  Wellington, 
in  1SS4.  While  in  Huntington  he  he'd  the 
offices  of  township  clerk,  township  trustee, 
and  justice  of  the  peace,  being  elected  to 
the  latter  office  three  successive  terms. 
In  March.  [885,  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
as  an  attorney,  and  has  been  in  the  practice 
of  law  at  Wellington,  Ohio,  since  that  time. 
Was  elected  to  the  70th  General  Assembly 
as  a  Republican,  and  reelected  to  the  71st 
General  Assembly  by  an  increased  majority. 

AN    EARTHLY    PARADISE- 

Colden  ('.ate  Park  in  San  Francisco 
stretches  in  a  mile  wide  strip  from  Stanyan 
street  to  the  ocean  beach;  it  is  thick  with 
treesjbanked  with  flowers; gemmed  with  lakes 
and  rivulets,  dotted  with  conservatories, 
museum,  playgrounds,  statues  and  other  at- 
tractions, and  in  extent  and  beauty  probably 
surpasses  any  other  park  in  the  United 
States. 

Directly  south  of,  and  adjoining,  this  mag- 
nificent pleasure  ground  of  the  people,  rises 
an  upland  covered  with  trees,  grass  and  fob 
iage  so  dense  as  to  make  it  resemble  a  prime- 
val forest.  This  broad  section  is  sheltered 
on  its  western  boundary  by  hills  from  the 
ocean  winds,  and  its  climate  is  the  most  superb 
that  can  be  found  in  San  Francisco,  or  lor  thai 
1  latter  in  the  state  of  California.      From    this 


location  a  most  magnificent   view  imaginable 

the  rolling  Pacific;  to  the  north  the  bay  and 
its  islands  and  the  Marin  County  shore;  to 
the  east  O.ik'and  and  the  white  sailed 
vessels  within  our  landlocked  harbor,  the 
purple  haze  of  Berkely  hills  in  the  distance; 
to  the  south  the  long  stretch  of  the  bay  and 
the  populous  and  teeming  city  and  the  green 

An  option  has  been  secured  upon  a  num- 
ber of  acres  of  this  tract  which  belongs  to  the 
Sutro  estate  and  the  indication  is  that  the 
Haskells  of  San  Francisco  and  elsewhere 
will  combine  and  purchase  the  same  for 
residence  purposes.  By  such  combination  a 
home  can  be  secured  at  one  quarter  the  or- 
dinary cost.  By  such  combination  the  home 
thus  secured  will  be  for  each  person  who 
takes  a  lot  one  of  the  finest  sites  111  S111 
Francisco. 

To  those  who  are  interested  in  a  matter  of 
this  character  and  who  desire  to  move  at 
once  in  relation  thereto  it  is  suggested  thai 
thev    address   II.    1.    Colvin  in  the  Cue  ol   ihe 

Haskrli.  Journal. 

DEATH     NOTICES- 

HASKELL— In    West    Sotnerville,   Mass.,    March 

26,  liamabus    Dodge    Haskell,  52  yrs.    31110s.  9  da) s. 

I'uiR-r.il    Tuesday,    March    29,    at    2   p.    m.,    from     ly 

Chestei    Street.'  Relatives  anil   friends  invited  to  al- 

GOODKLL— In  Salem,  Mass.,  March  27,  iS,,s, 
Abner  Cheney  Goodell,  Sr.  Mr.  Goodell  was  bjrn 
in  Norlli  Orange,  franklin  Co.,  Mass.,  i-vv  ,,,  ,,sos, 
and  was  the  husband  of  Sail)  Dodge  Haskell,  ol 
Ipswich,  Mass  ,  whom  lie  married  Sept.  1 .  1X29  She 
die  I  N'OV.  26,  IS  ,1.  lie  leaves  live  children:  Al.ner 
C.  Goodell,  |r..  for  111:111  \  years  commissioner  of 
provinci  s  laws  in  liostou,  Oliver  I  >.  C  lodell  ol  I'  - 
troit.  Mich.,  /.111a  I,  .i.l-II,  Annie  Goodell  and  Mis. 
Man  G.  Ward  of  Salem,  Mass.  Mr.  Goodell  was  of 
an  inventive  an  1  iny.  ni"ii-  tin  11  ..I  mm. I  and  p  1 
fected  the  design  of  the  lust  printing  press  which 
printed  on  I.  itli  sides  -1  a  pap  r  at  an  <-.  IK-  also 
invented  .1  midline    <<<■    miking    I 

covered  the  process  for  preparing  steel  and  eopp.-r 
plates  for  engravers.  He  helped  to  build  the  first 
locomotive  run  on  the  Boston  an  I  I,  >wi  II  K.  14.  In 
Salem  iii  1S37  lie  engaged  in  the  in  ichinist  business 
and  there    worked   on    the    firsl    el   ctri. 


still. 


late  Dr.  1  has.  Grafton  Page.  The  engine  u  is  ...-> 
on  the  Baltimor.;  an  I  Ohio  R  K.  He  (Mr.  G  .0  lell 
invented  machines  for  cutting  and  splitting  shoe 
pegs  for  r  illing  tin  tubis,  lj 
pipes  and  aqueduct  li  igs. 


..  borinu 


The  Haskell  Journal  modestly  says  that 

it  publishes,  prints  and  sends  every  month  not 
less  than  live  thousand  copies  to  members  of 
its  name,  race  and  blood  in  the  United  States, 
and  that  this  subscription  list  embraces 
every  state  ill  the  Union,  and  almost  every 
county. 

There  are  said  to  be  a  Haskell  county  in 
•  \as.  The  Journal  would  like  the  details 
ticerning  it. 


SOME     REVOLUTIONARY    OFFICESR. 

Account  of  the  Haskells  who  were  officers 
in  Ihe  Revolutionary  \\';ir.  from  liistorica, 
register  of  the  Continental  Army  from  Aprill 
1775  to  Dec.  [783,  prepared  by  !■'.  B.  Heit- 
m:in,  Washington,  1893: 

Andrew  Haskell,  Mass.:  Capt.  Whit- 
comb's  Mass.  Reg't.,  May,  1775. 

Benjamin  Haskell,  Conn.:  Serg.  6th 
Conn  .  8  May  to  Dec.  ro,  [775.  rCnsign  ioth 
Conlinental  Infantrv,  Jan.  1  to  Dec.  31, 
1776. 

Klnathan  Haskell.  Mass.:  2d  l.icut..  loth 
Cont.  hit'.,  July  5  to  Dec.  31,  1777;  1st  Lieut, 
and  Adj't.  14th  Mass.,  fan.  1,  1777;  Cant. 
April  1,  177s:  Brig.  Major  May  12,  177s; 
Transferred  to  4th  Mass,  Jan.  1,  [781;  Aide 
de  Camp  to  Gen.  Howe,  2  Sept.,  I782,  to  3 
Nov.,  1783;  Dt. -Major,  Sept.  30,  [7S3;  re- 
tained in  Jackson's  Cont.  Reg't.,  Nov.,  1783 
and  served  to  [une  30,  [7S4. 

Henry  Haskell,  Mass.:  Lieut.  Col.  15th 
Mass.,  [an.  1,  1777:  omitted  July  1,  177.;. 

Jonathan  Haskell,  Mass.:  Knsign  14th 
Mass.,  Jan..  [3,  1777;  Lieut,  and  Adj't., 
I'eli.  4.  177.1:  transferred  to  7th  Mass.,  Jan., 
1781;  transferred  to  2nd  Mass.,  June  12,  [783; 
retained  ill  Jackson's  Cont.  Reg't.,  Nov.  3, 
1783,  and  served  to  June  20,  1784;  Capt.  2nd 
U.S.  Infantry,  March  4,  1701;  assigned  to 
2nd  Sub.  Legion  Sept.  4,  1702;  resigned  Dec. 
5,  1793;  Major  4tli  Sub.  Legion  March  20, 
170  l;  Adj't.  C.cn'l.  and  Inspector  to  the  Army, 
[•'eb.  27  to  Aug.  1,  1796;  honorably  dis- 
charged Nov.  1,  1796.       Died  Dec.   13,  1814.) 

(Iii  the  painting  of  Burgoyne's  surrender 
now  at  the  Capitol  in  Washington  there  is  a 
Major  Haskell.  Is  this  Ihe  aforementioned 
Klnathan?  Will  some  of  the  Haskells  give 
a  further  .'mount  of  hilll?!  [  Yes.  [Jl). 
JOl'KNAL.J  Gj-O.'lJ.    HASKKLL 

Boston,  March  30,  1898. 


W.  II.  Haskell  of  Gaylord,  Kansas  appears 
to  he  a  coming  candiate  for  Congress  in  that 
district.  He  is  a  stockman  and  a  miller  and 
of  course  he  ought  to  he    elected. 

A  number  of  most  interesting  letters 
written  by  the  late  William  (  >.  Haskell,  the 
designer  of  the  family  tree  of  William  Has- 
kell, have  sent  to  us  for  inspection  through 
the  kindness  of  Mr.  h.  W.  Haskell  of  Pitts- 
burgh, Penn.  They  will  all  he  published  in 
due  course  of  time. 


ADVERTISEMENT. 

The  Haskki. i.  Journal  calls   attention  to 

the  fact  that  readers  ol  t  he  JOURNAL  are  re- 
quested to  pay  particular  attention  when 
they  propose  to  buy,  or  when  corporations 
which  they  represent,  buy  or  supply  any 
lubricating  oils,  greases,  or  boiler  compounds, 
and  to  remember  that  George  C.  Haskell  is 
President  and  Treasurer  of  the  Atlantic  Re- 
lining  Co.,  is  able  to  give  them  the  lowest 
rates' ami  the  best  material.  Is  located  at 
Cleveland.  Ohio,  and  that  his  office  and 
Works  are  [30,    132  and  134  River  street. 

Correspondence     is     solicited     and     prices 
will  be  sent. 


A,  DI  NOLA 

'HARMACIST:     Twenty   Years     He-re 

1249  MARKET  ST.  near  9th  SAN  FRANCISCO. 


1  (Qlie  fast  place  to  live  in  is  California. 

ASKELL, 


California  Wooln  Mills 
20  sansome  st.,  san  francisco 


Consultation  anil  ml' 
California  ami  Ncvaili 
Central  Pacific  Railroad  Company  11ml  otliei  1  ompan 

Telephone  Claj   71. 


all    matters   pertaining    to  Railroad  ami  Mineral  Lands  n 
twenty-five  years  Townsite  and  Right-of-waj  sij»ciil   forth' 
nnecled  therewith. 
HASKKLL,  20  Sansoine  St..  Sail  1  1,  Cal 


Supplement  to  the  Haskell  [ournal. 

i.-.- All  money  orders  should  be  drawn  on  Station  I'...  San  Francisco,   Cal.,  to  the  orde 
of  Burnette  G.  Haskell. 

County 
State 

1898 

To  BURNKTTJi  G.  HASKKLl, 
ICditor  Haskrll  Journal 

[346   Market   Street.    Rooms   24-28 
Telephone,  Mint,  1654 

San   Francisco,  Cal. 
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which  please  send  to  me  at  above  address. 

(Signed)      .. 
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relatives  as  follows: 

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Supplement  to  the  Haskell  journal. 

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:.-.•  Please  return  at  once,  filled  out,  to  Burnrttk  G.  IIankku.  Ivditor  of  the  Haskrm. 
Jouknai.,  [346  Market  St.  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

i,-.-    it'  this  blank  is  not  large  enough   till  it  out  by  additional  sheets. 

Please  give  on  this  sheet  the  following  information  in  relation  to  your  great-grandfather, 
your  grandfather,  your  lather  and  yourself;  name;  name  of  wife  and  date  of  her  birth  and 
death;  date  and  place  of  his  birth;  date  and  place  of  his  death;  date  and  place  of  his  marriage 

number,  names,  sex  and  residence,  births  and  deaths  of  his  children;  general  remarks,  etc. 


Golden  Gate 

Loan 
Office. 

10   SIXTH  STREET, 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 

W.  J.  WESTPHAL, 
<C^    Prop. 

Watches  and  Jewelry  at  Lowest  Rates 
of  Interest. 

BEN.    B.   HASKELL 
Attorney  and  Counselor-at-Law 

409  CALIFORNIA  ST.  SAN  FRANCISCO.  CAL. 

J.  G.  HASKELL 

Architect  and  Superintendent, 

Fellow  of  tlie 

AMERICAN  INSTITUTE  OF  ARCHITECTS. 

»nd  the  KANSAS  ASSOCIATION  OF  ARCHITFCTS. 


Thirty-nine  years  of  continuum)  and  • 
The  oldest  office  in  the  State. 

Now  of  Lawrence.  Ka 


Holmes  Book  Co., 

1 149  Market  stree 
1 1 55  Market  street 

.   •  and  704  Mission  Street,  San  Francisco,  C«l. 

Being  Antiquarian  hook  dealers  we  are  prepared 
to  take  orders,  and  to  make  searches  for  any  book 
that  may  be  required.  We  can  furnish  books  om 
genealogy  and  Haskell  History,  and  any  and  every 
book  mentioned  in  the  Haskell  Journal. 

Seventy-five  thousand  volumes  in  stock. 

AU  books,  old  and  new,  bought,  sold  and  exchanged. 

A  full  line  of  Law,  Medical  and  Text  Books. 

Correspondence  solicited. 

The  Hnskelli  of  the  Tncific  Coast 
.  .   .   are  requested  to  remember 

A.  &  J.  Levin, 

Stationery, 
Pocket  Books, 
Cutlery, 
Toilet  Sundries. 
1332  Market,  Sttp^esjest. 

Opp.  odd  I'ellows  Hall.  San  Francisco. 

Telephone  Jessie  il;i. 

s.  a7haskrll, 

Ladies',  Children's  and  Infants' 
Furnishing  Goods, 

Fancv  Work  and  Notions 


flR.  QEOROE  B.  HASKELL 

Conducts  a  P  '-al  Estate  and  Insurance  business,  ne- 
gotiates mortages  and  attends  to  general  business  of 
that  kind  and  character.  His  location  is  in  Boston, 
Mass.;  hi§  address,  338  Exchange  Building,  No.  5^ 
Stale  St.,  at  that  place; 

PECK,    HASKELL  &   COBB  BROS.. 

are  Manufacturers  and  Dealers  in  Hemlock  and 
Hardwood  Lumber  at  Ulysses,  IVnn. 

Mr.  \V.  L.  Haskhi.i.  is  manager  of  the  l'irm  and 
lie  suggests  that  if  any  of  the  5,000  Hnskclls  in  the 
United  States  desires  to  build  that  they  correspond 
With  him;  (hat  he  can  furnish  them  material  of  the 
finest  quality  and  at  a  cheaper  price  than  any  other 
competitor. 

THE  GREENWICH  INSURANCE  COMPANY 

of  the  State  of  New  York  was  organized  in  rS,si.  It 
is  one  of  the  most  solid  financial  institutions  in  the 
United  Stales.  It  insures  for  less  rates  than  most 
other  companies,  and  it  pavs  its  losses  without  suit. 
Its  Agent  isW.H.HASKELL  of  Lake. Charles; 
Louisiana  Of  course  it  has  agents  in  almost  every 
State  in  the  Union,  but  the  five  thousaud  llaskells 
in  the  United  States,  if  they  desire  to  be  insured, 
should  correspond  with  the  agent  named. 

THE  HASKELL  SILK  COMPANY 

whose  mills  are  at  Saccarappa,  Maine,  whose  Offices 
and  Salesrooms  are  at  No.  70  Green  St.,  New  York, 
and  whose  manager,  E.J.  HASKELL,  can  be  con- 
sulted at  Westbrook,  Maine. 

This  Haskell  Silk  Co.,  ought  tohave  the  patronage 
of  every  Haskell  whose  wife  or  daughter  desires  a 
silk  or  satin  dress.  They  are  manufacturers  of  the 
finest  of  dress  silks  and  satins  and  they  claim  a  su- 
periority over  the  best  imported  fabrics.  Correspond- 
ence is  solicited. 

MR.  T.  T.  HASKELL 

Of  614  Main  St.,  Worcester,  Mass.,  is  a  large  man- 
ufacturer of  fine  custom  Shirts,  Hats,  Caps  and 
Gent's  Furnishing  Goods.  He  believes,  and  rightly 
so,  that  the  Haskells  ought  to  patronize  each  other 
and  he  therefore  advertises  in  the  "Journal"  and 
will  be  pleased  to  receive  any  orders  that  may  come 
in  response  to  this  advertisement. 

THE  DIAMOND  WALL   CEMENT, 

One  of  the  most  unique  and  practical  improvements 
ever  designed  and  which  every  Haskell  who  desires 
to  build  should  investigate. 

Correspondence  solicited.  Plans  and  estixtates 
drawn.  Construction  contracts  made  and  carried  out 
with  fidelity  and  dispatch. 

THURSTON  &  HASKELL,  Carpentersand  Build- 
ers, 362  and  3^4  S.ate  St..  Elmira,  New  York. 

ULYSSESS  G.  HASKELL 

Attorney  and  Counselor-at-Law 
2'5«}£  ESSEX  ST.,  salEM:;  MASS., 

66  Cabot  St.,  Ik-vilyT  Mass.,  evenings. 

Joseph  Theodore  Haskell 

A.XXORNEY-AT 

"Wellington,  Ohio. 


AW 


304  Main  street, 


Painesville,  Ohio. 


These  cuts  exe- 
cuted in  steel    will 
be     furnished    b 
the  Journal     for  «2 

S?.oo  each. 


1 


HASKELL'S 


WHEAT 
FLAKES 


Made  from  Choice  arjd  Thoroughly 
Cleaned  Wr/ite  Wr;eat. 

HASKELL'S  WHEAT   FLAKES  are  a  preparation  of  white 


wheat,  from  which  the  outer  brand  fibre,  of  a  . 
woody  nature  and  impossible  of  digestion,  has 
been  removed  leaving  a  food  composed  of  the 
wholesome  and  nutritious  element  of  the  grain, 
and  the  unwholesome  and  indigestible  ones 
eliminated 

It  is  then  crushed  to  make  it  easilyprepared 
for  the  table,  and  this  crushing  process  makes 
i    soft  and  tender  and  easy  to  cook. 

It  is  especially  recommended  and  adapted 
to  persons  of  weak  digestion,  to  invalids  and  to 
small  children,  containing  as  it  does,  all  of  the 
health  giving  qualities  of  the  grain,  easily  di- 
gestible and  highly  nourishing. 

Prepay    W.       H.       HASKELL      <£      CO., 

Cereal  Millers. 

TOLRDO,  OHIO. 
Ask  your  Grocer  for  it  and  insist  upon  his  ordering  it 


THE 

HASKELL  JOURNAL' 


A  Monthly  Magazine 


SAN  FRANCISCO,  APRIL  i89S. 


(Issued  Id  Ortolie 


TABLE  OF*  CONTENTS 


Biography  of  Hon.  Dudley  C.  Haskell 
What  McKinley  said  About  Him 
A  Letter  from  General  Haskell     - 
A  Letter  from  J.  Armory  Haskell 
A  Letter  from  George  B.  Haskell 
Rarly  Family  History  Continued 
Letters  from  William  0.  Haskell    - 
William  Haskell's  Genealogy,  U.  G.  H. 
Editorials:  An  Explanation 
A  Summarv  of  the  Whole  History 


50  CENTS  PER  COPY 


No.  4. 


HASKELL'S 


Made  from  Choice  and  Thorouo'hly 

Cleaned   White  Wheat. 


HASKELL'S  WHEAT  FLAKES  are  a  preparation  of  white 


wheat,  from  which  the  outer  brand  fibre,  of  a 
woody  nature  and  impossible. of  digestion,  has 
been  removed,  leaving  a  food  composed  of  the 
wholesome  and  nutritious  element  of  the  grain 
and  the  unwholesome  and  indigestible  ones 
eliminated. 

It  is  then  crushed  to  make  it  easily  pre- 
pared for  the  table,  and  this  crushing  process 
makes  it  soft  and  tender  and  easy  to  cook. 

It  is  especially  recommended  and  adapted 
to  "persons  of  weak  digestion,  to  invalids  and 
to  small  children!  containing  as  it  does  all  of 
the  health" giving  qualities  of  the  grain,  easily 
digestible  and  highlv  nourishing. 


Pre  pa 


iy*  itte  feW  &ii  ipiS*  i/fyi 

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DUDLEY  C.   HASKELL. 

From  the  "Memorial  Addresses  on  the  Life  nnd 
Charactei  of  Dudley  C.  Hnskcll,  a  representative 
from  Kansas,  Delivered  in  the  House  ol  Representa- 
tives and  the  Senate  of  the  United  States,  Forty- 
eighth  Congress,  First  Session.  Published  by  order 
of  Congress.  11.  Mis.  -,'>  -  1  Government  Printing 
office.  '  iNS.|." 

Joint  Resolution:— Resolved    by    the    Senate  nnd 

Representative '     tin     Ui    ted    Slates  in 

Congress  Assembled,  that  there  be  printed  ol  the 
1  livered  in  tVn^rcss  upon  tin-  late  Dudley 
C.ilaskell,  a  Representative  elect  to  the  Forty- 
eighth  Congress  from  the  State-  c.f  Kansas,  twelve 
thousaud  live  hundred  copies 

The  first  announcement  of  tin;  death  of 
Dudley  C.  Haskell  was  ni.uk-  in  the  House 
of  Representatives  upon  December  17,  1883, 
by  Mr.  Anderson,  whostated  to  his  colleagues 
that  Mr.  Haskell  had  departed  tliis  lite  at  his 
residence  in  Washington  on  the  t6th  day  of 
December  at  twenty  eight  minutes  past  tour 
o'clock.  Mr.  Anderson  said  in  effect  in  an- 
nouncing the  death  of  Mr.  Haskell  that 
through  the  last  three  Congresses  his  col- 
league had  served  "with  ever  increasing 
ability,  fidelity  and  efficiency.  ...  Of  his 
never  questioned  purity  of  life  and  force  of 
character,  of  his  ripe  legislative  experience 
there  can  he  no  question." 

On  the  28th  day  of  February,  1884,  the 
speaker  declared  a  special  order  to  be  the 
consideration  o\  the  resolutions  concerning 
Mr.  Haskell,  Mr.  Ryan  offered  the  following 
resolutions  which  were  thereafter  unanim- 
ously carried  by  the    Senate    of   the    United 

States  as  well. 

"Resolved,  That  the  ordinary  business  of 
the  House  be  laid  aside  in  order  that  appro- 
propriate  tribute  may  be  paid  to  the  memory 
of  Dudley  C.  Haskell,  late  a  Representative 
from  the  State  of  Kansas. 

Resolved,  That  in  the  untimely  death  of 
Mr.  Haskell  the  House  has  lost  a  conspicu- 
ous and  faithful  member,  his  constituents  a 
zealous  and  capable  servant,  and  his  country 
a  citi/en  of  exemplary  life,  patriotic  devotion 
and  rare  promise. 

Resolved,  That  as  an  additional  mark  of  re- 
spect for  his  memory  and  sot  row  for  his  loss, 
the  House,  at  the  conclusion  of  these  cere- 
monies, shall  adjourn." 

After  addresses  by  Mr.  Ryan,  Mr.  Kellev, 
Mr.  Tucker,  Mr.  Ke"ifer,  Mr.  McKinley,  Mr. 
Rice,  Mr.  Russell,  Mr.  i'.urnes,  Mr.  Brown  of 
Indiana.  Mr.  Bedford.  Mr.  Hanback,  Mr.  Pet- 
tibone,  and  Mr.  Perkins,  the  resolutions  were 
unanimously  adopted  and  the  House  ad- 
journed. 

In  the  Senate  of  the  United  States.  March 
3,  [884. 

Mr.  John  B.  Clark,  Jr.,  the  Clerk  of  the 
House  of  Representatives,  appeared  at  the 
bar  of  the  Senate  and  said:  "Mr.  President, 
the  House  ot  Representatives  Iips  passed  a 
series  of  resolutions  as  an  appropriate  tribute 


to  the  memory  ol    Dudley  C.  Haskell 

The  in  itlei  bi  ing    coi  unanim- 

ous consent  the   following    resolutions  were 
unanimously  adopted 

By   Ml    Plumb  /.     /     That  the  Senate- 

has  received  with   profound    sorrow    the  an- 
nouncement of  the  death    of   the    honorable 

Dudley     C.     Haskell,     late     a     mcillbi       • 

House  of  Representatives  from  the    State  of 
Kansas. 

Resolved,  That  the  business  of  the-  Senat< 
be  now  suspended  that  opportunity  maj  be 
given  for  fitting  tributes  to  the  1111 
the  deceased  and  to  his  eminent  public  and 
private  virtues,  ami  tint  as  a  further  mark  of 
respect  the  Senate,  at  the  conclusion  ol  such 
remarks,  shall  adjourn." 

Vfter  addresses  by  Senators  Ingalls,  Dawes, 
Cockrell,  Morrill  and  Plumb  the"  resolutions 
were  unanimously  adopted  and  the  Senate 
adjourned. 

Mr.  Ryan  of  Kansas,  in  the  House  of  Rep- 
resentatives, among  othei  things  said  the 
following: 

"Mr.  Speaker:  I  enter  upon  this  sad  duty 
with  a  sorrow  made  poignant  by  the  memory 
of  years  ol  uninterrupted  friendship.  Dud- 
ley C.  Haskell  was  my  associate  and  col- 
league in  Congress  from   1876  to  the    date   of 

his  death Our  relations  were  always 

cordial,  and  were  never  interrupted  bj  hasty 

word  or  unpleasant  incident Alter  a 

long  and    heroic    struggle    against    r< 
disease,  he  died  at  his  rooms    in     this   clt\     a! 
about  half  past    four   o'clock  on  the   loth    day 
of  1  (ecember  last 

Mr.  Haskell  was  born    at    Springfield,   Vt., 

March  23,  [S42 He     •  .  ■     - 

Franklin  Haskell  and  Almira  Chase.  His 
father's  family  is  traditionally  traceable  to 
Saxony.  (Ouery?  l-'.d  I  They  came  to 
America  from  Scotland,  (?)  and  were  ai  long 
the  first  to  settle  in  tile  historic  town  of  Sa- 
lem. Subsequent  settlements  were  made  by 
some  of  them  in  Connecticut  and  Vermont. 
His  mother  belonged  to  ami  old  and  numer- 
ous New  Fngland  family  of  that  nai 
of  whom  attained  to  considerable  distinction. 
His  parents  moved  to  Massachusetts  when 
he  was  but  two  years  old,  where  they  con- 
tinued to  reside  until  September,  1854,  when 
bis  father  went  to  Kansas,  followed  by  his 
mother  and  himself  the  ensuing  Mai 
1x^7  he  went  back  to  Springfield,  \  I 
lie  attended  about  a  year,  and  then  returned 
to  his  home  and  engaged  in  trade. 

Soon,  however,  and    at    the    earl) 
seventeen  years,  he  was  moved  by    the  pre- 
vailing excitement    resulting    from    gold   dis- 
coveries in  Colorado  to  go  to   "Pike' 

Fickle     fortune     withholding      her 

sought  his  home  in  !' 

1861 He  entered  military    service  a 

lad  of  but  nineteen  years,    and     his    superior 


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qualities  did  not  long  await  recognition,  for 
lie  was  soon  assigned  to  the  important  posi- 
tion ct"  superintendent  of  transportation  of 
his  division. 

[n  January,  1863,  he  retired  from  the  mili- 
tary service,  and  in  the  following  March  en- 
tered school  at  East  Hampton,  Mass.  Re- 
maining there  for  a  time  he  was  admitted  to 
Yale  College  and  there  took  a  special  scien- 
tific course 

In  November,  (865,  he  married  Miss  Har- 
riet M.  Kelsey,  of  Berkshire  county,  Massa- 
chusetts   Immediately  alter  his  mar- 
riage he  returned  to  his  Kansas  home,  in  the 
citj  of  Lawrence,  where  he  engaged  in  mer- 
cantile   pursuits In    1871    he    was 

elected  to  the  Kansas  legislature In 

1875  he   was   again    elected In  1875 

he  was  chosen  speaker   of   the    House 

Ill  1S76  he  was  elected  to  the  lower  House  of 
the  Forty-fifth  Congress,  and  he  was  succes- 
sively chosen  to  the  Forty-six,  Forty  seventh 

and     Forty-eighth    Congresses Me 

was  vigilant  and  active  respecting  all  matters 
of  interest  to  Kansas,  and  there  is  little  of 
Federal  legislation  affecting  her  development 
upon  which  he  has  not  left  his  impress. 

He  was  fond  of  his  constituents  and  proud 
of  his  state.  In  conversation  he  delighted  to 
dwell  upon  the  early  struggles  and  triumphs 
of  i.he  young  Commonwealth.  He  indulged 
a  just  pride  in  having  borne  a  part  in  all  her 
vie  issitudes.  When  but  a  lad  of  thirteen 
yea  rs  he  participated  in  the  contests  and 
shared  in  the  privations  of  the  period.  Fresh 
from  his  New  England  home,  imbued  with  a 
love  of  freedom  and  prompted  by  the  zeal  in- 
spired by  the  passions  of  the  time,  he  should- 
ered his  rille  and  with  his  command  inarched 
forth  to  battle  for  human  liberty. 

Mr.  Haskell  was  gifted  with  a  splendid 
physique,  being  considerably  over  six  feet 
high  and  symmetrically  proportioned.  His 
bodily  strength  was  great,  and  lie  was  pas- 
sionately fond  of  atheletic  sports. 

In  thought,  speech  and  action  he  was  vig- 
orous and  aggressive.  It  seemed  impossible 
for  him  to  be  lukewarm  or  apathetic  in  the 
performance  of  any  task  or  the  discharge  of 
any  duty " 

Mr.  Kelley  of  Pennsylvania,  addressing 
the  House  spoke  as  follows: 

"The  premature  death  of  so  enlightened 
and  courageous  a  legislator  as  Hon.  Dudley 
C.  Haskell  was  more  than  a  bereavment  to 
his  family  and  friends.  It  was  a  national 
calamity.  .  .  .  Horn  in  Vermont,  he  received 
his  elementary  education  in  his  native  town 
of  Springfield,  and  emigrated  with  his  mother 
to  Lawrence,  Kansas,  when  but  thirteen  years 
old.  In  less  than  two  year  from  his  settle- 
ment in  Lawrence  he  enrolled  himself  in 
what  was  known  as  Stubb's  militia,  and  bore 
his  part  in  the  labors  and  perils  of  those  tur- 
bulent days  of  border  life  as  heroically  as  did 


the  brawniest  man  in  the  corps.    .    .    . 

Mr.  Haskell,  with  his  herculean  frame,  Ids 
deep  voice,  and  his  sometimes  stei  nl  v  Puritan 
visage,  was  a  genial  companion  and  in  all 
the  honorable  stiites  of  public  life  a  gener- 
ous foe " 

Mr.  Tucker  of  Virginia,  among  other  things 
said  the  following: 

"Decided  111  his  convictions,  he  had  the 
courage  which  they    inspire    in    maintaining 

his  opinions He  spoke    always  with 

great  earnestness  and  with  abilities  which 
were  practical,  direct  and  instructive.  He 
was  remarkable  for  great  industry,  and  ac- 
quired with  diligence  all  the  information 
which  in  his  judgment  would  reflect  light 
upon  the  subject  under  discussion 

Among  the  things  said  by  Mr.  Keiferof 
Ohio,  are  these: 

"Though  of  New  England  parents  and 
birth  he  was  at  thirteen  years  of  age  upon 
the  plains  of  Kansas,  and  in  an  essential 
sense  engaged  at  the  beginning  of  a  long 
and  bloody  battle  for  human  freedom,  ami 
ended  only  after  half  a  million  of  men  were 
slain  by  the  surrender  of  the  insurgent 
armies  in  1865.  I  have  heard  him  speak  of 
standing  with  his  hand  in  his  mother's,  be- 
hind the  rude  parental  habitation  in  Kansas, 
when  but  a  youth,  to  avoid  the  bullets  fired 
by  those  who  sought  to  carry  slavery  into 
the  fair  territory  west  of  Missouri He- 
was  a   distinguished    public    educator 

He  was  temperate  in  his  habits,  and  only  in- 
temperate   in    his  ceaseless    toil He 

fought  for  the  rights  and  liberties  of  man, 
and  went  down  in  the  lore  front.  His  whole 
career  blossomed  with  patriotism  and  love 
for  his  fellow-men.   .   .   .  ," 

Mr.  McKillley  of  Ohio,  now  President  of 
the  United  States,  delivered  the  following 
address  which  we  give  in  full: 

Mr.  Rice  of  Massachusetts,  among  other 
things  spoke  as  follows: 

"The  father  of  Mr.  Haskell  was  a  strong. 
energetic,  restless  man  of  that  peculiar  New 
England  type  who  have  carried  the  princi- 
pals and  the  institutions  of  the  Puritans  from 
Plymouth  to  Oregon.  During  the  ten  years 
he  lived  in  Massachusetts  he  was  a  resident 
in  half  as  many  different  towns,  making  his 
mark  in  all  as  a  man  of  spirit  and  vigor  but 
finding  a  settled  home  in  none.  At  last  in 
1853  he  c.uiie  to  North  Brookfield.  .  .  .  His 
father  invested  all  his  resources  in  construct- 
in-  :io:n  an  abandoned  church  a  four-tene- 
ment house.  It  was  nearly  finished  for  its 
new  purpose  when  on  the  night  of  July  4, 
!SS4,  it  was  burned  to  the  ground.  The 
father  was  ruined  financially  by  the  calam- 
ity  

Mr.  Russell  of  Massachusetts  delivered  an 
address  which  was  extremely  elogistic. 

Mr.  Burnes  of   Missouri,  also  delivered  an 


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address,  the  whole  of  which  ought  to  be  pub- 
lished but  for  which  wc  have  not  the  space. 

Some  of  bis  sentences  ought,  however,  tu 
be  preserved.  He  said  of  Mr.  Haskell  these 
things: 

"Self-reliant  almost  to  rashness,  he  never 
hesitated  in  the  line  of  duty  to  teach  out  for 
the  possible.  His  investigation  of  a  subject 
ended  only  in  its  mastery. 

The  trusts  imposed  in  him  were  sacredly 
executed.  His  pledged  word  was  inviolate. 
His  political  honor,  equally  with  his  person- 
al honor,  he  kept  sacred  ami  spotless.  True, 
brave  and  steadfast,  his  acquaintances  be- 
came his  friends  and  the  latter  were  multi- 
plied. His  constituents  followed  him  with 
pride.      He  was  tit  to  lead." 

Mr.  Brown  o(  Indiana,  among  a  number  of 
other  things  said  this: 

"When  the  House  adjourned  be  became 
a  learner;  when  it  met  he  was  a  teacher.  To 
me  it  seemed  that  he  had  mastered  the  min- 
utest detail  of  the  complex  measure  under 
consideration.  The  fullness  of  his  informa 
lion,  the  exactness  of  his  knowledge  of  every 
branch  of  the  subject,  was  a  surprise  to  all 
who  did  not  know  his  inflexible  purpose  and 
untiring  energy." 

Mr.  Belfordof  Colorado,  among  other  things 
spoke  as  follows: 

"Dudley  C.  Haskell  was  great  and  noble- 
hearted;  his  thoughts  and  his  deeds  blended 
together  like  the  notes  that  spring  Irom  the 
various  strings  of  a  barp.  He  was  courage- 
ous anil  manly  in  debate,  and  wist:  and  judi- 
cious in   counsel.   .   ." 

Addressof  Mr.  McKinley,  of  Ohio,  (now 
President:) 

Mr.  SPEAKER:  I  cannot  permit  this  occa- 
sion to  pass  without  adding  a  word  expres- 
sive of  my  appreciation  of  the  character  and 
qualities  of  our  late  associate,  and.  of  the  deep 
sorrow  I  feel  in  common  with  many  others  at 
his  early  and  premature  death. 

I  knew  Dudley  C.  Haskell  well  and  inti- 
mately. We  entered  Congress  at  the  same 
time,  seven  years  ago,  and  early  in  out  ser- 
vice here  became  friends.  This  friendship 
grew  warmer,  closer,  and  more  confiding  un- 
til the  day  of  his  death.  During  the  last 
Congress  it  was  my  fortune  to  be  a  fellow- 
member  of  the  same  committee,  and  almost 
daily  for  months  we  sat  side  by  side  in  the 
committee  loom.  It  was  there  I  came  to  learn 
his  virtues-and  appreciate  his  high  qualities 
of  head  and  heart.  He  was  a  valued  friend, 
unselfish  and  always  manly,  ami  a  steady 
ally  in  committee  or  on  the  tloor  of  the 
House.  He  was  a  man  of  pure  thought  and 
lofty  purposes  keen  perception  and  (dear 
judgment,  whose  life  was  helpful  to  all  who 
came  within  the  circle  of  his  influence,  and 
whose  strong  individuality  impressed  itself 
upon  the  affairs  in  which  he  took  part. 


He  was  a  man  of  greal  inti  grity.  There 
were  no  dark  comers  in  his  character  lobe 
hid  from  sight;  his  life  was  an  open  book  of 
rare  worth,  without  blur  ordefei  t.  His  poli- 
tics, like  his  religion,  were  bom  of  genuine 
convii  tiou.  He  loved  liberty .  and  hated  op 
pression  and  proscription  in  every  form.  He 
would  become  eloquent  and.  bis  words  glowed 
with  rare  fervoi  in  his  recital  ol  the  early 
struggles  of  his  State  for  liberty  and  free 
government.  He  had  convictions  and  they 
I  n,i  possessed  his  soul.     They   were 

a  pait  of  him,  and  he  never  lacked  the  cour- 
age to  Utter  them.  He  was  a  man  of  stern 
will  and  unremitting  industry.  He  never 
spared  himself  or  shirked  duty,  responsibilil  y 
or  labor,      lie  was  an    indefatigable    worker, 

often   touching  the  extreme  limit   of    physical 

possibilities.  He  was  not  not  only  a  student 
but  he  was  a  scholar;  however,  most  of  his 
intellectual  equipment  was  self  acquired  and 
earned  outside  ol'  college  walls.  He  never 
Stopped  until  he  had  mastered  the  subject 
in  hand.  He  built  from  the  bottom,  digging 
deep,  and  he  always  builded  well. 

He  was  a  strong  debater,  with  a  voice 
which  could  penetrate  every  part  of  this 
hall;  with  great  readiness,  a  commanding 
presence,  and  a  well  stored  mind,  he  stood  in 
the  front  rank  of  the  ablest  and  best  of  his 
fellow-memders. 

In  the   Forty-seventh  Congress    betook  a 
high  place  among  his  associates,  and    had    he- 
been  permitted  to  take  his  seat    in   this   Con- 
gress he  would  have   stood  abrcaM  ol   | 
whom  we  gladly  accord  the    rank    ol 
ship. 

Death  claimed  at  the  very  threshold  ol  a 
great  career  —at  the  moment  when  beseemed 
best  prepared  lor  wider  usefulness  and  for 
the  achievement  of  higher  triumphs,  when 
he  appeared  best  fitted  to  Serve  his  '■ 
country.  But  he  is  gone.  Dudley  C.  Has- 
kell is  no  longer  among  us,  called  by  a  wise 
Providence  from  this  presence.  W 
this  decree,  pausing  only  a  little  while  today. 
not  to  question  the  inscrutible  mysteries  of 
that  Providence  or  to  challenge  His  ordering, 
but  to  pay  our  last  tribute,  give  our  heart 
offerings  to  one  who  in  life  we  loved  and 
honored,  and  who,  though  removed  from 
these  scenes  forever,  leaves  behind  naught 
but  memories  most  pleasing  and  reflections 
most  instructive,  and  the  record,  of  a  life  the 
study  of  which  cannot  fail  to  make 
ciii/ens,  wiser  and  more  faithful  representa- 
tives of  the  people.  His  family  have  lost  the 
husband  and  the  affectionate  and 
generous  father,  his  district  and  State  a 
strong  representative  on  this  floor,  the  coun- 
try at  large  a  wise  and  patriotic  public  ser- 
vant, and  all  of  us  a  faithful  friend  and  val- 
uable associate. 

In  1854  Kansas  was  a  wilderness.  Thetide 
of  emigration  had  reached    the    great    rivers: 


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all  along  its  path  the  struggle  had  been 
waged,  with  varying  fortune,  between  the 
spirit  of  freedom  and  of  slavery.  On  the 
borders  of  the  new  territory  the  rival  forces 
mustered  foi  desperate  con lliel  should  Kan- 
sas be  slave  or  free?  It  seemed  as  is  if  on 
the  answer  to  that  question  hung  the  mighty 
issue  whether  freedom  or  slavery  should  for- 
ever rule  tin.-  Republic.  Far  away  on  the 
Atlantic  coast,  Massachusetts  watched  the 
conflict  aud  essayed  her  best  endeavors  that 
Kansas  should  be  free.  An  emigrant  aid  as 
sociation  was  organized;  Rli  Thayei  ol  Woi 
cestei  u. is  its  projecter,  Amos  Lawrence  of 
Boston  iis  banker,  Charles  Robinson  of 
Fitchburg  its  pioneer,  A  surveying  party 
was  sent  out  in  the  spring  of  [S54  who  sel- 
ected a  site  for  a  city  and  named  it  Lawrence. 
In  August,  1854,  the  second  party  of  emi- 
grants left  Worcester  under  the  lead  of 
Charles  Robinson;  they  were  tall  men  ami 
aev  were  inspired  In-  that  fierce  in- 
stinct, that  love  of  adventure  mingled  with 
devotion  to  a  cause,  which  has  impelled  the 
Saxon  race  westward  from  the  center  of 
Northern  Furope  over  ocean  ami  continent, 
planting  everywhere  the  pillar-,  of  a  civiliza- 
tion highei  and  stronger  than  the  world  had 
know  n  before. 

In  this  company  of  emigrants  was  Mr. 
Haskell,  senior.  The  month  before,  all  his 
worldly  wealth  had  vanished  in  smoke  and 
ashes.  With  undaunted  heart  he  turned  his 
hack  upon  his  past,  his  tare  set  toward  an 
unknown  and  perilous  future.  I  saw  him 
that  summer  afternoon  as  he  commenced  his 
journey  tor  a  new  home  and  a  free  one.  In 
one  hand  he  carried  his  blanket,  in  the  other 
his  Sharps  rifle. 

He  did  not  return;  but,  in  the  following 
March,  Dudley  ami  his  mother,  with  another 
company,  joined  the  early  settlers,  and  found 
their  home  in  Lawrence. 

The  lather  survived  but  three  years.  An 
elder  brother  stepped  into  the  vacant  place, 
and  was  to  Dudley  both  brother  and  father. 
lie  Urged  and  helped  him  to  study,  and 
thereby  lilted  him  lor  the  useful  ami  con- 
spicuous life  —  all  too  brief — for  which  he- 
was  destined.  At  the  age  of  thirty-four  he- 
was  the  honored  Representative  in  Congress 
of  the  great  state  with  nearly  a  million  of 
people  which  was  an  unpopulated  wilderness 
when,  a  boy  of  fifteen,  he  first  set  foot  upon 
its  soil. 

hirst  elected  to  Forty-fifth  Congress,  he 
was  prevented  by  sickness  fiom  taking  the 
oath  on  the  first  day  of  the  Session.  Mam- 
days  later  he  made  his  appearance,  and  we 
saw  for  the  first  time  his  tall,  erect,  stalwart 
figure  on  this  floor. 

1  can  see  his  face  as  I  saw  it  then,  fixed, 
earnest,  resolved,  and  as  I  recall  it  I  fancy 
that  I  discern  that  absent,  far  away  dreamy 
expression  his  comrades  saw  on    it    when  he- 


was  a  boy, 

From  his  entrance  here    he     was   a    marked 
man.     I  lis  conimandin  ;  I  1  powei  fill 

voice  enabled  him  to  forci  ij    to   the 

front  in  the  stormy  debates  in  which  he  so 
often  took  pait.  Sometimes  in  t]u-  early 
part  of  his  service  we  might  think  that  he 
often  and  with  too  little;  forethought, 
but  we  soon  learned  ili.it  he  was  sincere  and 
earnest;  that  he  never  spoke  without  an  lion 
est  purpose,  and  that  his  very  veheni 
but  tli.-  effort  of  his  strong  but  not  tho 
disciplined  intellect  to  lone  its  thoughts  into 
proper  and  consistent  phrase.  No  11 
more  rapidly  than  he  in  con  I 
and  influent  e.  He  soon  ceased  to  be  a  si  out, 
a  skirmisher,  a  sharp-shooter,  and  became  a 
leader  of  the  center  columns.  About  him 
were  men,  veterans  in  service,  who  had  made 
parte  issues,  questions  of  political  economy, 
their  study  for  scores  of  years;  others  trained 
and  disciplined  by  the  tough  contests  ol  pro 
fessional  life,  and  others  polished  and  refined 
by  the  highest  culture  of  this  most  cultured 
age;  but  anion;;  them  all  none  were  more  con- 
spicuous in  the  great  debates  of  the  last  Con 
greSS  than  this  young  man  of  Kansas,  who, 
through  an  unsettled  childhood,  a  destitute 
orphanage,  a  hand  to  hand  struggle  f  n  bread 
and  a  place  among  his  fellows,  at  forty  years 
seemed  to  have  reached  the  beginning  of  his 
development. 

Six  brief,  bright  years  of  public  service, 
and,  "weary  with  the  march  of  life,"  he  fell — 
and  perished3  Xo,  he  lives  yet — we  may  not 
say  in  what  other  sphere  — he  lives  here,  in 
the  memory  of  what  he  did,  teacher,  example, 
guide  to  the  young  men  of  the  land. 

Mr.  I  lanback  of  Kansas,  among  other  things 
"His  heart  was  spotless  and  void  1  I 
toward  his  fellow-men.    .   .   . 

Mr.  Pettibone  of  Tennesee,  amoug  other 
things  spoke  as  follows: 

"He  was  a  most  manly  man.  .  .  He  was 
always  ready  t"  spend  and  to  be  spent  in  the 
cause  of  truth,  justice  and   humanity.    .    . 

Mr.  Perkins  of  Kansas,  delivered  a  eulogy 
upon  Mr.   Haskell    as  well. 

Mr.  [ngals  of  Kansas,  epigramtically  said 
in  his  address  that  while  conscience  males 
cowards  of  us  all  it  made  no  coward  of  Dud- 
lee  C.  Haskell.  That  it  made  him 
mis  rather,  and  daringly  aggressive  and  de- 
fiant intellectually  in  his  support  of  princi- 
ples which  he  believed  essential  to  the  well- 
-  lie  |"  ople.  .  ." 

Mr.   Dawes  ol   M  also   adds    his 

tribute    to    the    history  of  Mr.  Haskell       His 
address   is  a  masterpiece    of    direct,     patriotic 
and  forcible  English,  but  too  long  to 
Only  a  few  sentences  can  be  given       Among 
other  things  he  s.,N  >: 

"I   valued   his  counsel    and    relied    upon    his 
Igmenl lie  had  a  heart    as   big   as 


52 


I'll 


ASK 


IOURNAE 


his  native  hills,  ever  responsive   to   the   ap- 
peal of  the  lowly He  uttered  thoughts, 

not  until-.,  and  they  seemed  to  come  up  from 
a  deep  well,  always  full.  He  had  convic- 
tions, ami  he  dwelt  in  nothing  else.  .  .  .  The 
whole  biography  of  this  man  is  written  in  a 
single  word  -fidelity,  the  noblest  wi 
all,  in  the  English  language.  .  .  .  He  was 
a  product  of  our  institutions  all  t< >•  >  rare  in 
this  day.  ...     He  was  not  born    to    politics 

or  place,  luii  t<>  poverty  and  privation 

Such  men  lay  Ihe  foundations  and   build   the 
walls  of  our  Republic.  .  .  ." 

Mr.  Cockerel!  of  Missouri,  also  paid  Ins 
tribute.  His  eloquent  address,  giving  ex- 
tracts from  the  newspapers  of  [883  istoo  long 
to  be  now  repriuted. 

Mr.  Morrill  of  Vermont,  insisted  upon 
speaking  because  Mr.  Haskell  had  been  a 
native  of  that  state,  and  in  an  eloquent  ad- 
dress  he   bore  testimony  to  his  distil 

services. 

Mr.  Plumb  of  Kansas,  closed  the  tributes 
given  in  the  House  by  an  address  which 
scintillates  with  epigram.  Ainong-other 
things  he  said: 

"His  courtesy  was  as  sincere  and  cordial 
as  it  was  plain  and  artless.  He  cultivated 
no  grace  at  the  expense  of  sincerity,  nor  sim- 
ulated a  pleasure  that  he  did   not   feel.  .  .  ." 


Columbus  Barracks,  ColumbXis,  Ohio,  April 

1  $,  1 

Burnette  G.  Haskell, 

DRAH  sir:  —  I  heard  of  our  JOURNAL  about 
ten  days  ago  and  wrote  immediately  for  a 
copy.  My  son,  Roland  I).  Haskell  of  San 
Pedro,  Cal.,  sent  me  your  address  and  now  1 
enclose  money-order  lor  the  Journal.  1 
want  without  tail  the  hist  number  and  from 
that  on;  and  would  like  to  have  them  mailed, 
rolled  tight,  so  that  they  will  not  mash  in  car- 
riage. Of  course  we  will.///  wantour JOURN- 
als  bound  and  put  in  shape  for  future  gener- 
ations to  enjoy. 

When  the  war  is  over  or  the  President 
tin. Is  that  we  can  get  along  without  it,  1  -hall 
take  pleasure  in  writing  von  again  and  tell- 
ing you  something  of  my  father's  family,  but 
just  at  present  I  am  very  busy  getting  ready 
for  a  move  with  my  regiment.  With  best 
wishes  for  your  success  and  hoping  that  the 
!  skcll  tribe  will  join  in  all  efforts  to 
help  your  worthy  endeavors.  [  remain  very 
sincerely  yours.  1.  S.  HASKELL, 

Ueut.-Col..  17  T  11ft  y  !'.  S.  A. 

New  York,  March  3,  1808. 
Burnetii  G.  Hash,!!,   Esq.,  Ed.  .!/„■,-..    /?/d 
Market  St.,  San  I  '    Dear  Sir:— En- 

closed please   find   my  check    for  f>    amount 
;,  subscriptions^    the  Haskell  Journal. 

Please  send  them  to  162  W  86  St.  New  York. 
Yours  very    truly,  J.  Amor.    Haskell. 


338  Exchange  Building,  No.  53  Stat 

Boston,   M.iss.,   b,  l,j  .   5th,    ■ 

Bimielte  G.  Haskell,  Esq.,  Dear  Sir:— I  have 
received  and  read  with  much  pleasure  the 
first  number  of  the  HASKKLI.  JOURNAL,  and 
enclose  $2.00  lor  a  year's  subscription. 

I  did     not    find     the   •'blank"    enclose. 1,     to 
w  hi.  h  \  on  refer,   and  pending  the  1 
it,  I  will  give  you   my   ancestry     back  to  the 
"first    William." 

,,   w...    1:    II  iskell,  Hi.-  writer  of  this.         Irani      1H5.V 
William   l{.  I'.  1  l-'atlicr)  "  is,;, 

William  !•'.  Ila  1  "         17.H.1 

|osiali  llaski  It  (Great  Gram!  1  •■         1754. 

■  ..  iiKlfmlier)       "         17 16. 
josiali  Haskell  {(  Ir'l,  I  Ir't,   Gi  I.  "    |  "         K1S7. 

I  Ir't  ,Gdf.  Iim.k,|S. 
Will, am  Uaskell(Grl  ,Gr't.,Gr't.,Gr't  ,Gr't..Gtlfl>if>!7. 


Does  th 


-e  m 


tanding  an 


The  late  William  0.  I)  kell  1  f  Boston, 
(who  published  a  genealogical  charl  of  the 
family,  told  me  he  had  accumulated  a  lot  ol 
material  for  a  history  of  the  family.  I  wish 
it  could  be  pi  iced  at  your  disposal.  Some  of 
his  sons  are  living. 

The      publication     of     your     JOURNAL  may 

also,  l  hope,  lead  to  ihe  recovery  of  the  MSS 
of  family  history  compiled  bv  the  late  Chas. 
Haskell  as  told  bj  William  Garrison  Haskell 
in  his  published   letter. 

(  i|  1  ourse  the  history  now  in  progress  will 
tell  us    in  Ain:    course   just    \\  here   tin 
William"  came  from.     The    William    1  1    Has- 
kell bef,  in  I     said    he    came   in  the 
ship  Arabella  i  ,,1  Arbella.  1 

1  have  worked  hours  on  lists  of  early  emi- 
grants, early  voyages,  etc.,  with  such  facili- 
ties as  the  Boston  Libraries  afford,  without 
establishing  this  point  to  my  satisfa  t     □ 

A  perusal  of  the  lirst  William's  will  sheds 
no  light  upon  it. 

All,,.',      me    to    Suggest      that    the      JOURNAL 

should  ha.\e  departments  of  Births,  Marriages 
ths  (con find  to  the  family  of  course,  1 
and  also  a  department  of  Books  and  Pamph- 
lets wherein  the  doings  ol  the  family  ancient 
mi  are  referred  to.  with  brief  refer- 
ence to  chapters,  pages,  etc.,  of  special  in- 
terest. 

The  Hisiorv  of  Gloucester,   Mass.,    for  in- 
well    worth  reading  by   any    Has- 
kell, especially  descendants  of  the 
liam.     Our  ancestors  seem  to  have  been  fore- 
most in  the  stirring  events    of  colonial  days 
1'lease  send  sample  the  Ji  (URN  VI. 

to  Edward  and  Prank  Haskell,  (Haskell  Silk 
CicSa.  caiapp.i,  Maine:  alsoto  Paul  Haskell 
Ashland,  Kentucky.      With  the   lasl 
have    had    some  11    family 

geneoli  gy. 

Wishing  you  every  success   in  your    enter- 
!   am 

Very  truly   yours, 

:.    I'..   II  \SKELL. 


'UK   HASKELL  JOURNAL 


S3 


Con  •.;,■  //.  March  number. 

fngwar  was  distinguisned  for  a  commanding 
genius  ami  Ivbba  lor  his  fortitude;  botli  were 
highly  courageous  ami  inordinately  cruel. 

I'll-  country  was  affected  by  a  great 
dearth  I  his  year,  \\  hull  tlie  presence  of  such 
enemies  must  have  enhanced.  Alfred  had 
now  •  ched  his  nineteenth  year;  he  was 
arised  l>>  his  brother  to  an  inferior  participa- 
ion  nl  the  regal  dignity,  ami  In-  m  irri<  I 
Calsmithia,  the  daughtei  ol  a  Men  ian  noble- 
man. 

The  earnestness  with  which  Alfred  in  his 
Boetius  speaks  of  conjugal  affection,  implies 
that  this  union  contributed  greatly  to  his 
felicity. 

Pin  Northmen  having  resolved  on  their 
plausof  occupation  and  conquest,  began  to 
separate  into  divisions. 

i  m  body  rebuilt  York.  eulti\  I 
country  round  it,  ami  couAioued  to  coloni/e 
it.  It  may  be' presumed  that  Ingwar  headed 
these.  Other  bands  denoted  themselves  to 
promote  the  ambition  of  those  chieftains 
who  also  aspired  to  royal  settlements. 

This  army  passed  the  Huniberinto  Mercia, 
ami  established  themselves  at  Nottingham, 
where  they  wintered.  Alarmed  by  then  ap- 
proat  h,  Burrhed,  the  king,  and  h 
sent  an  urgent  embassy  to  West  Saxony. for 
Kthclrcd,  w  ith  judit  ious  polii  J  . 
hastened  to  his  wishes,  lie  joined  the  Mer- 
cian with  Alferd  and  the  whole  force  of  his 
dominions:  and  their   u  inarched 

toward-  the  frontier  through  which  the  in- 
vaders had  pen- 

They  found  the  Northmen  in  possession  of 
ham;  the  Danes  discerned  the  greal 
superiority  of  the  allied  armies,  and  rem  lined 
within  the  strong  walls  and  castle  <•(  the 
town.  The  Anglo  Saxons  were  incapable  of 
breaking  through  these  fi  i 
their  mutual  respect,  after  an  im 
struggle  i  p         cation,    advanta- 

II  ties.  Tin  invaders 
were  to  retreat  to  Vork,  and  the  kings  of 
I  Csse  x,  satisfied  with  having  delivered 
Mercia.  and  not  discerning  the  danger  of 
.'  the  Northmen  to  remain  in  any 
part  of  the  island,   returned  home. 

The  Northmen  retired  to  York  with  great 
booty.  In  this  year  two  of  the  most  terrible 
calamities  to  mankind  occurred,  a  great 
famine,  ami  its  inevitable  attendant,  a  mor- 
tality of  cattle,  ami  of  the  human  race.  The 
general  misery  presented  no  tempi 
the  rapacity  of  the  Northllli  n,  and  they  re- 
mained a  year  in   their   Yorkshire  stations. 

When  spring  arrived,  they  threw  oil  all 
disguise,  and  signalized  this  fourth  year  of 
their  residence  in  Knglaml  by  a  series  of  hos- 
tilities the  most  fatal,  and  ol 
most  cruel.  They  embarked  on  tin-  1  lumber. 
ng  to  Lincolnshire,  landed  ,,t  Hum- 
bertson  in  Lindesey.     From  this   period  lan- 


guage cannot  describe  theii  devastations,  it 
cm  only  iepr.it  the  words  plunder,  murdei , 
rape,  famine  and  disliess.  It  can  only  cnu 
\  ns,  villages,  cliun  lies  and  mon- 
asteries, harvests  and  libraries,  raiisacked 
and  burnt.  But  by  the  incessant  repetition 
the  hoi  i,  as  are  diminished;  and  we  read  with- 
ti  n,  the  narrative  ol  deeds  which 
rent  the  hearts  of  thousands  w  ith 
and  indicted  wounds  on  human  happiness 
am!  human     improvement,    tt  hi.  h 

difficulty   healed.       Instead,  therefori 

eral  statements,  which  glide  as  unimpress- 
ively over  the  mind  as  the  arrow  upon  the 
ice,  it  may  be  preferable  to  select  a  few  in- 
cidents, to  imply  those  scene  sof  desolation, 
which,  when  stated  in  the  aggregate,  only 
confuse  and  overwhelm  the  sensibility  of  our 
pi  ii a  ption. 

After  destroying  the  monastery,  and  slay- 
ing all  the  monks  of  the  then  much  admired 
abbey  of  Bardeney,  they  employed  the  sum- 
mer in  desolating  the  country  around  with 
md  fire.  About  Michaelmas  they 
passed  the  Witham.  and  entered  the  district 
ol  Kesteren,  with  the  same  dismal  ministers 
of  fate.  The  sovereign  of  the  country  made 
■  ofdefence;  but  a  patriotic  few  at- 
tempted to  procure  for  themselves  and  the 
rest,  that  prot  ction  which  their  government 
/:'d  in  •    impart. 

The  brave  Karl  of  Algar.  in  September, 
drew  out  all  the  youth  of  Iloiland;  his  two 
seneschal-,  Wibcrt  and     l.efric,  whose  names 

.  :  ustics  th  it  survives,  attai  In 
grateful  memory,  to  their  possessions,  which 
they  robbed  Wiberton  and  Lefrinkton,  as- 
id  Boston 
300  valiant  and  well  appointed  men;  2  • 
more  joined  him  from  the  Croy land  1 

re  composed  chiel  1  fugitiv  es 
and  were  led  by  Tolius.  who  had  assumed 
but  who.  previous  to  his  entering 
1  profession,  had  been  celebrated 
for  his  military  character.  Morehard.  lord 
nf  Brunne  added  his  family,  who  were  un- 
daunted and  numerous.  Orgot,  the  Sheriff 
of  Lincoln,  a  courageous  and  formidable 
veteran,  collected  500  more  from  the  inhabit 
ants  of  the  county.  These  generous  patriots 
united  in  Kesteren.  with  the  daring 
sherking  by  their  valour,  tin  | 
ferocious  invaders. 

On  the  feast  of  St.  Maurice,  they  attacked 
the  advanced  bauds  of  the  Northmen  with 
such  auspicious  bravery,  that  they  slew- 
three  of  their  kings  and  many  of  tin 
They  (based  the  rest  to  the  t^ates  of  their  in- 
treiichnients,  and,  notwithstanding  a  fierce 
resistance,  they  assailed  these,  till  the  ad 
Vance  of  the  night  compelled  the  valiant. earl 
",'  his  noble  army. 
With  an  unpn  the  ■lotlier 

i|    the     Northmen,     who    had      spread 
ihemselves  over    the  country    to  plundei    it, 


M 


Ivl.l.  JOl'RNAI. 


Godrun,  Balseg,  Oskitul,  Halfdem  anil 
Amond,  togethei  will:  Frcna,  ICngu  ir,  Ubbo, 
and  the  two  Sidross,  hastened  during  ihe 
night  to  reunite  theii  bands  in  the 
immense  booty,  and  n  numerous  multitude 
of  women  and  children,  their  spoi 
panied  them. 

The  Northmen,  in  the   first    daw  n 
halted  their  three  kin 

h  mi,  w  illi   lour    jail-, 
i  amp  and  captives,  they  im  \  ard  \\  it Ii 

foui  kings  and  eight  jails.  burning  with  fury 
for  the  disgrace  of  their  friends  on  the  pre- 
ceeding  daw 

The  English,  from  their  small  numl 
traded  themselves  into  a  hedge;  against    the 
impetus  of    the   Northmen     darts,    they  pre- 
sented an  impenetrable    arch  of   shi 
they  repelled  the  violence  ol  the  hoi  l<  -  by  .1 
dense  arrangement  ol   llx  ii  spi  ars    I 
by   their  intelligent  c<  inmanders,    ll 
tained   then    stolons    immovable  the    whole 
day. 

livening  advanced,  and  their  unci 
valour  had,  kept  oft"  enemies,  a  hose  numbers 
had  menaced  them  with  inevitable  ruin. 
The  Northmen,  had  spent  Iheirdarts  in  vain. 
Their  horsemen  were  wearied  with  the  in- 
loil  of  the  daj  ;  and  their  whole 
army,  despairing  of  success,  in  feigned  con- 
fusion withdrew.  IClaled  at  the  sight  of  the 
retreating  foe,  the  linglish,  quitting  their 
array,  sprang  forwards  to  complete  their 
conquest  In  vain  their  hoary  leaders  ex- 
postulated, in  vain    proclaimed    ruin    ifthey 

■ 
unhoped  success,  they  forgot  that  it  was  the 
skill  of  their  commanders,  which,  more  than 
their  own  bravery  had.  protected  them.  They 
forgot  the  fewness  of  their  numbers,  and  the 
yet  immense  superiority  of  their  toes.  They 
saw  flight  and  thought  only  of  victory.  Dis- 
persed in  their  eager  pursuit,  they  displayed 
to  the  Northern  chiefs  a  certain  11 
conquest.  Suddenly  the  Pagans  rallied  in 
even  part,  and  rushing  npoi 
Knglish  surrounded  them  on  every  side.  It 
was  then  they  saw  what  fatal  rashness  had 
involved  in  equal  ruin  their  country  and 
themselves.  They  had  almost  resetted  ling- 
land  from  destruction  by  their  valour  and 
conduct:  and  now,  by  a  moment's  folly,  all 
their  advantages  were  lost,  b'or  a  while, 
Algar,  the  undaunted  earl,  and  the  self- 
devoting  Tolius,  with  the  other  chiefs,  dis- 
creet even  in  the  midst  of  approaching  ruin, 
by  gaining  a  little  eminence,  protracted  their 
fate.  But  as  the  dispersed  Kngli 
not  be  reunited,  as  the  dissolved  arrange 
ment  could  not  be  rccoinpo* 
and  skill  of  the  m  ignaiiinn hi 

exalted  and      excelled,      could  only 
multiply  the  victims   of     the  day.      'J 
sibility   of    victory     was     vanished.      The   mx 
chiefs'  beheld    their     follow  I 


around;      death       appri      lied       tl  emselvi  s. 

M  1      1  II  ol  :'. 

iv,    till    fainting 

■    1 

youths  of  Sullon  atidGidci  I 
ins   int. 1   the    iv  ■    od,  and 

ollowing 
night,  they  communicated   tin 

while  its 
abl  11  t  and  tin  sociel  \  w  ere  pel  Ii  h  ining  ma 
tins.  Tin-  dismal  tidings  threw  lerroi  into 
every  breast;  all  foreboded  thai  the  next 
calamity  would  lall  on  them.  Tl  1 
•  with  him  the  aged  monl 
few  infants,  senl  1  iithful   and   the 

strong,  with  their  relics,  jewels  and  1 
to  hide    themselves  in    the    nearest    marshes 
fill  the  demons  of  slaughtei    had    passi  d   bv. 
With  anxious  hi 

Iren  mres.     They  threw    their    domestic 
into  the  waters,  bill 

!  with  gold,  rose 
above  the  waves  they  drew  it  out  and  re 
placed  it  in  ill, 

The     flames  of    the     villages    in    Kesteren 
now  gradually  spread  toward    them,  and   the 
ol    the    Ik-rce    pagans    drew    neater. 
Alarmed,     they     resumed      their     boat,     and 
reached  tl  1       Vncarig,  near  ' . 

of  the  island.      Here,    with  Tore t us,  the    an 
chorite,  and    his    fraternitv,    thev    1 

The  al  bi       nd  .vho   were    toi     young 

or  too  old,  put  on  their  sa<  red.  vestni 
assembled  ill  the  choir,  performing  tin 
and  singing  all    the    psalter    with    tl 

I     unresisting     :  ge     and     harmless 
■-  cruel!  \  . 
Soon  a  furious  ti 

poured  in.  exulting  to  find   Christian    priests 
'.o    massacre.       The    venerable    abl 
hewed  dov  11  a'  I 

and     the    attendant    monks    were    ' 
after    him.      The  old  men    ..a     1 
tan  a  frig  1 

to  discover  the  treasu 

]  v.  Hie  superior 
in  the  refectory;  everv  part  of  the  sacred  cdi 
lice  was  stained,  with  blood.  One  child  only, 
ol  ten  years  ol  age,  whose  beautiful  counte- 
nance happened  to  interest  the  younger 
Sidios,  was  permitted  to  survive.  The  spoil- 
down  all  the  tombs  and  monuments 
with  the  avaricious  hop  ng  treas- 

ures; and,  on  the   third    day,  they    committed 
ice  to  the  ll. lines. 
With  a  great  plund    •  insatiate 

barbarians  inarched  the    next    'lav    to   Peter 
borough.     There  sti  od  a  monasti  ry.  the  glory 

architecture    of    the    : 
library  was  a  1  ks  w  hich 

the  anxious  laborers    1  ries    had 

collected.      But  arts    and    science     vvi 


KKI.l.   JOURNAL 


s: 


not  worth  even  to  amuse  their  women  in  the 
estimation  of  these  invaders,  They  assailed 
the  gates  and  fastenings,  and  with  their  arch- 
ers and  machines  attacked  the  walls.  The 
monks  resisted  with  all  tln.ii  means  of  an- 
noyance. A  brothei  of  Ubho  was  carried  off 
to  liis  tent  wounded  by  the  blow  of  .1  stone. 
This  incident  added  a  new  incentive  to  the 
cruel  fury  of  the  Northmen.  They  hurst  in 
at  the  second  assault  under  Ubbo.  He  slew 
the  hoary  abbot  and  all  the  monks  with  his 
own  weapon.  ICvery  other  inhabitant  v.  as 
slaughtered  without  mercy  by  Ins 
One  man  only  had  a  gleam  ol  humanity, 
lutioned  the  little  boy,  whom  he  had 
saved  from  Croyland,  to  keep  out  1 
way  of  Ubbo.  The  immense  booty  which 
Ihey  were  gorged  with  did  not  m  ;  -  ite  tin  ii 
lust  tor  ruin.  The  much  admired  moi 
ami  it-*  valuable  and  scan  ely  reparable  liter- 
als treasures  were  soon  rapt  in  lire,  P01  fil 
teen  (lavs  the  conflagration  continued. 

The  Northmen. ■".'mini:  to  the  Si 
vaiued  to  Huntingdon.  The  two  earls  Si- 
deoc,  were  appointed  to  guard  tire  leas  and 
tlie  luggage  over  the  rivers.  As  they  were 
passing  the  men,  after  the  rest  ol'  the  army, 
two  cars,  laden  with  vast  wealth  and  prop- 
erty, with  all  the  cattle  drawing  them,  were 
overturned  at  the  left  of  the  stone  bridge  in- 
to a  depthless  whirl] I.  While  all  the  at- 
tendants o|  the  younger  Sidroc  were  em- 
ployed   in    recovering   what    was  possible  of 

•  he    child  ol    Croyland   rani 
nearest  wood,  and,   walking  all  night,    he  he- 
held  the  smoking  ruins   of  his    monastery  at 
the   dawn. 

He  found  that  the  monks  had  returned 
from  [ncarig  the  day  before,  and  were  labor- 
iously toiling  to  extinguish  the  flames,  which 
yet  raged  in  various  divisions  ol  the  monas- 
tery. When  they  heard  from  the  infant  the 
fate  of  their  superior  and  elder  brethern,  un- 
conquerable sorrow  suspended  their  cxer- 
tions,  till  wearied  nature  compelled  a  remis- 
sion of  theii  grief.  They  collected  such  as 
they  could  find  "I"  the  mutilated  and  half- 
consumed  bodies  and  buried  them  with  sym- 
pathetic reverence.  Having  repaired  part 
0!  the  ruins,  they  chose  another  alhot;  when 
the  hermi  rg  came  to  impli 

charitable  cure  for  the  bodies  at  Peter- 
borough, which  the  animals  of  prey  were 
violating.  A  deputation  of  monks  was  sent, 
who  found  the  corpses  and  interred  them  in 
one  large  grave,  with  the  abbot  at  the  sum- 
mit. A  Money  pyramid  coveted  his  remains, 
round  which  were  afterwards  engraved  their 
images,  in  memorial  of  the  catastrophe. 

Spreading  devastation  and  murdi 
them  as  they  marched,  the  Northmen  pro- 
ceeded into  Cambridgeshire,  lily  and  its 
lirst  Christian  church  and  monastery,  with 
the  heroic  nuns,  who  mnlilaed  their  faces  to 
preserve  their  honor,    were  destroyed  by  the 


tuthlcss  eneniv;  and  manv  other  places  were 
desolated.  The  Sanguinary  invaders  went 
afterwards  into  [Cast  Anglia.     The  throne  of 

this  kingdom  was  occupied  by  lidmund,  a 
man  praised  foi  his  affability,  his  gentleness, 
and  humility.  He  may  have  merited  all  the 
lavished  encomiums  which  he  has  received 
for  the  milder  virtues;  hut  Ire  was  deficient 
in  that  manly  energies  whose  vigorous  activ- 
ity would  have  met  the  storm  in  its  fury,  and 
might  have  disarmed   it   of  its  terrors. 

Ingw  ar,  separating  from  Ubbo,  1 
to  the  place  wheie  I'.dmund  resided.  The 
picture  answered  to  his  route  represents  a 
burning  country,  the  highways  strewed  with 
the  victims  of  massacre,  violated  \\ 
husband  expiring  on  his  own  thresln  Id  neat 
Iris  w  ife,  and  tin  mother's 

bosom,  and  slain  before  hei  eves  to  increase 
her  screams,  [ngwai  had  heard  a  favorable 
account  oi  Kdward's  warlike  abilities.and  by 
a  rapid  movement  endeavored,  according  to 
the  usual  plan  of  the  Northmen,  to  surprise 
'he  king,  before  he  could  present  an  armed 
country  to  repel  him.  Edmund,  though 
horrors  had  for  sometime  been  t  aging  round 
his  frontiers,  was  rou><.d  to  no  pn  ; 
had  meditated  no  warfare.  He  was  dwell- 
ing q.iitely  in  a  village  near  Magilsdan; 
when  the  active  Dane  appeard  near  him.  and 
he  was  taken  completely  unav 

His  earl  Ulfkutel,  had  made  one  effort  to 
save  h'.ast  Angelia,  hut  it  failed.  This  army 
was  derisively  beaten  a!  Phatford  with,  pro- 
fuse slaughter;  and  this  calamity  deeply 
wounded  the  mind  of  Kdmund,    win 

resist  the    Danes  with  energy,  was 
not  merely   to     uphold    his  own    domination, 
but  to  protect  his  people  iron,  tin   1 
ruin. 

As  [ngwar  drew    nigh    to  the  ro; 

dence,  he  sent   "lie  of  his  countrymen  to  the 

king,  with  a  haughty  command,  to  d 

treasures,  submit  to  his  religion,  and  reign  in 

subjection    to  his  will.     "And  who    are  you 

that  should  dare  to  withstand  our  power;  the 

storm  of  the   ocean    deters   notour    proposed 

enterprise,  hut    serves    us    instead 

Neither  the  loud  roarings  of  the  sky,  nor   its 

darting  lightenings     have  ever    injured  us. 

Submit,  then,  with  your  subjects,  to  a  master 

whom  even  the    elements    respect."     On  re- 

this     imperious    message.     Kdmund 

insel  with  one  of  his  confidence.  The 

ecclesiastic,     apprehensive     of     the     king's 

safety,  exhorted  his  compliance.     A 

ensued,  in  which  Kdmund  displayed  the  sen- 

■   an    amiable  mind,    hut    not    those 

active     talents     which     would       have     given 

unhappy 

groaning    under  every    evil  which 

a  barbarous  enemy  could   inllict,  ami  wished 

his   death   could      restore    them.      When     the 

bishop  represented  to  him  the  ravages  which 

i;     Northmen     had      perpetrated,     and     the 


THE   1IASIII.I.I.  JOURNAI 


clanger  which  impaneled  on  himself,  and  ad- 
vised his  flight,  the  mild-hearted  king  ex- 
claimed, "1  desire  not  t<>  survive  my  dear 
and  faithful  subjects.  VVh)  do  you  suggest 
tome  the  shame  of  abandoning  m; 
soldiers?  1  have  always  showed  the  disgrace 
ut'  reproach,  and  especially  of  cowardly 
abandoning  my  rights;  because  I  feel  it  noble 
in  .lie  lor  my  country  then  to  forsake  it:  and 
shall  1  ii"  a  be  a  voluntary  recreant,  when 
the  loss  of  those  1  loved  makes  i 
light  of  heaven  tedious  to  me.'  The  Danish 
envoy  was  then  called  in,  and  Edmund  ad- 
dressed him  with  an  energy  that 
have  anticipated  such  a  crisis,  and  to  have 
influenced  his  actions.  "Stained  as  you  are 
with  the  Mood  of  ray  people,  you  deserve 
death;  but  I  will  imitate  the  example  of  him 
I  venerate,  and  not  pollute  my  hands  with 
your  blood.  Tell  your  commander,  I  am 
neither  terrified  by  his  threat.-,  nor  deluded 
by  his  promises.  Let  his  boundless  cupidity, 
which  no  plunder  can  satiate,  take  and  con- 
sume my  treasures.  You  may  destroy  this 
poor  and  falling  body,  like  a  despised  vessel; 
but  know,  that  the  freedom  of  my  mind  shall 
never,  for  an  instant,  bow  before  him.  It  is 
more  honourable  to  defend  our  liberties  with 
our  lives  than  to  beg  mercy  with  our  tears. 
Death  is  preferable  to  servility.  Hence!  my 
spirit  shall  fly  t<  i  heaven  from  its  pi 
laminated  by  no  degrading  submission.  How 
can  you  allure  me  by  the  hope  of  retained 
power,  as  if  I  could  desire  a  kingdom,  where 
its  population  has  been  so 
few  subjects  robbed  of  everything,  that 
makes  life  valu 

This  passive  fortitude,  and  these  irritating 
reproaches  only  goaded  the  resentment  of 
;  id  hostilities  had  now- 
made  active  warfare  useless.  The  king  was 
taken  without  further  contest.  He  was 
bound  with  close  fetters,  and  severely  beaten. 
He  was  then  dragged  to  a  tree,  tied  to  its 
trunk  and  lacerated  with  whips.  Even  these 
sufferings  could  not  appease  the  tif 
Baltic.  'They  aimed  their  arrows  at  his  body 
with  contending  dexterity.  At  length  lug- 
war,  enraged  at  his  firmness  and  piety,  closed 
the  cruel  scene  by  the  amputation  of  his 
head. 

After  some  weeks  Godrun,  to  whom  the 
conditions  were  acceptable,  went  with  thirty 
of  his  chiefs  to  Aurle 

i  ;  Asser,  35.  Mr.  Walker  thinks  it  was  the 
modern  Aurle.  a  small  tow  11  near  Ethel- 
ney.  Wedmor  was  not  less  than  twelve 
miles  from  it.  At  Wedmor,  the  white  gar- 
ments and  mystic  veil,  then  appropi 
baptism,  were  given.   \'it.  Oelf.  35. 

is.  As„cr.  55.  MSS.  Vesp.  D  1  \.  Flor.318. 
Sat.  Chron,  85, 


WILLIAM  0.  HASKELL. 

Some  Letters   Written  hy  Mm    : 
\    11?  V"-o. 


N.  II.  Nov.   i, 

I     addi 


M 

Rec'd  last  night  y. 
Win  0  1 1.  and  judged  it  was  meant 
Win.  O.  [r.  don'l  live  line.  lb  ll< 
ami   I  wish   1   never   had. 

I  ha\  <■    ii"   pi    iti\  e    prool   Hi  1 ,     ■  Id     I 

name  sake  i  Wm,  of  1617)  had  am  e  I 
suit  Darwin  ).     Som  ■  sav  the    nam. 
pea  red    R<  ell,    but  so, 

spelled   wrong.     I    have  found    in  earlv    re- 
cords  Hascall,   kill,    kal,  1.::'.: 
kell.     Careless  mortals  maki  -  troul 
scendants,     Roger  and    M  where  the 

woodbine  tu  iueth. 

I  think  the  name  was  once    Asgl, 
aspirate  made  H asgl  and  eve ntualh  it 
Haskell.      My     reasons   are     strong     but     too 
much  to  go  into  at    this  time.     My  sands    are 
most  run   out,    going  on   to    n 
short  about  22  years  of  it.      If  von  are  in  fear 
and  hold 
fast,  and  then  if  vou  fall 

Yours   II  isl     II 

Wm.  O.  Haskell. 


crest   is  a    tree,    eitln  1 
rial.     It  has    been  adopted  as  ap 
tilli  triumphe."     Vm   it 


The  delay  of  the  loURNAr,  is  one  that  prb 
ably  will  not  again  occur. 


!'.  S.    Th« 

' 
pie   fruited. 
Veritas. 

1  have  found  them  (the  II  iskellsin  general 
-  and     in- 
telligent, but     sometime    cranky  an 
gent.     Your    great    gi 
family  were  as  a  general  thing  a  vei 
tempered  and  easy  going  sort   of  pi 
Mason.    X.    II..    Nov. 
Frank     Walsh     //<■ 
highly  int 
inst.  containing  photo  and  stamps  is  at  hand. 

of  mail  matter  came 
ner  time,  on   Monday. 

sk  if  any    ancestors  have  disl 
themselves   by  deeds?    I  have    by  dci 
mortgages  to  my  sorrow    shame  and 
consequently    trying    to    live    on 
drowthy  summers  and,  frosty  falls.     Old  Wil- 
liam of  i'"i7  Patriarchal  head    1 

>er  in  his  day.     Representative    to 
Gen.  Court  is  or  20  yeai 

Captain  of  trainband.  Merchant,  Tanner  and 
Mariner.      I  note  an   acl  public 

good.     Gov.  Andrus    ordered   the    •■ 
M         •  revenve,  youi 

grandparent  refused  to  levy  the  tax,  and  was 
lined  40  pounds  for  refusing  and  j  pound  10 
shillings  for  the 

met  and  did  the  same  t!: 
time,  nil  of  which  was  highly  appi 
the  public    voice.     Mai  nei    run 

the  lirst    saw-mill   and     grist     ever 


THIi    HASKUU,  JOURNAL 


57 


William,  merchant,  selectman,  rep.,  deacon 
39  years.  Hubbard,  tailor,  vei  v  pious 
Hubbard,  snilmnkcr,  pious.  Samuel  S  ,  !■  •; 
dealer,  pious.  If  it  is  any  credit  to  be 
deacon  you  ought  to  be  satisfied  with  the 
record  as  most  all  held  ili.it  position  formany 
years  as  well  as  places  ol  public  tmst  where 
money,  rum    and  u;n<l  bummer  ili<!    not  uile 

My  family  consists  of  Self,  1808.  Sept.  17th 
wife  Sarah  Spiller,  of  Concord,  1813,  Mar.  4. 
married  Oct.  30,  1836,  in  Concord;  William 
O.born  in  Chelsea,  Mass.,  Maj  24.  1844;  Frank 
Hubbard,  born  in  Chelsea,  Mass.,  Dec.  25, 
1846;  Harry  Hudson,  born  in  Chelsea, 
Mass.,  July  S,  1852;  Fdward  Andrew,  born  in 
Chelsea,    Mass.,  June  19,  185  1 

Harry   died  Mar.  1 1 .    1S85,  in    V 
Will  lives  in  Clarendon  Hills,  Frank  and  lid. 
are  here  with  me  for  lack  of  anything  better 
to  do,  all  Milan  and  active  and  bright  but  no 
capital  to  do  business  with. 

My  health  is  poor  and  wifes  is  worse,  but 
both  keep  about  doing  the  best  we 
us  imbued  with  optimism.  Brothei  \.  I, 
Unitarian  deacon  1st.  Unit:  church,  Chelsea; 
Sister  Anna  I>.  Brooklyn,  X.  V.  monopolizes 
piety  of  family.  Sister  Mary  ] 
thinking  orthodox,  Roxburry.  Sifter  Lucy 
Dromne  free  thinking  orthodox,  Dorchesl  r; 
Geo.  W.   eclectic,   ditti 

It  would  liea  funny  sight  to  see  your  grand- 
parent SS.  tracing  out  the  tree  with  tissue 
paper,  when  the  tree  all  completed 
had  foi  $1  post  paul.  It  has  been  my  desire 
that  families  could  have  a  copy  and  add  such 
as  come  along  with  name  and  date,  so  that 
the  rei  ord  might  be  kept  up  by  each  family 
and  some  one  in  the  future  might  gather 
them  and  produce  a  new  tree  with  addition, 
and  improvmeuts  with  much  less  trouble 
than  this  one  «  ill   cost. 

Speaking  of  oddities  excentric  cranks  it 
puts  me  in  mind  of  Noah  D.  son  of  your 
great  grand  by  his  first  wife  and  he  had  two 
sons  Jonathan  Stickney  and  Noah  of  the 
same  wife.  Noah  D.  commanded  a  vessel  in 
fruit  trade  at  one  tunc  he  had  orders  In  1.  ml 
cargo  of  ..ranges  at  N.  V.  or  Huston,  htu 
thought  of  fame  and  not  of  self  in  drawing 
interest  to  himself,  so  he  let  his  order-  go  and 
landed  in  Newburyport  the  first  cargo  of 
oranges  ever  landed  there,  lost 
Fame,  the  last  I  heard  of  him  while  living 
was  at  Missouri  trying  the  Dai. 
racket  with  living  machine  hermited  in  a 
shanty  at  work  alone,  never  heard  ol 
He  died  two  years  ago  ,,4    years  of  age. 

Jonathan  was  school  teacher,  preacher  and 
'  '.  sleight  of  hand,  and  circus  man. 
he  came  to  !'•< 
Methodist  star  and  took  the  town,  the  next 
I  knew  of  him  was  as  "Prof.  Houdan"  in 
legerdemain,  his  wife  walking  on  n 
the   air  and    his     daughter   turning     strips  of 


papei  into  lice  canary,  birds,  that  also  took 
the  town,  then  settled  in  Nebraska  as 
-  philanthropist  et( .  etc.,  the  next  I 
knew  I  was  walking  up  Chatham  St.  N .  V. 
some  gamin  had  knocked  down  a  diagram 
of  whale  ox  chop  shop  bill  of  fare  and  price 
list.  A  man  rushed  out  bare  headed  in  shirt 
sl.eves  w  ith  joining  hand  voile;  1 
war  vocal. ul. 11  \  \\  hell  lie  saw  nil 
dow  11  called  nil  IC  to  smile, 

next  and  last  1  heard,  a  friend  of  mine  told 
me  lie  saw  my  brothei  in  New  Orleans  run- 
ning a  circus  that  was  Joliat  lian    S. 

"Cranks  ami  exceiilrics  evert  man   must  In-. 

l-eu  in  the  extreme  nil  111   11  .Utfree 
I  tit  limes  nre   1     1 

Ami  ev.  11  the  liest  at  times  what  111. 

r  A' 

SAM    [O:   1  S   IN  M 
The  Rev.  Sim    Jones  is  at  Red    Rock:  and 
many  thousands  of  people  from  Minneapolis 
and    St.   Paul    are    crowding  the    excursion 
trains  to  the  <  amp  grounds.     Do  I  oul 

into  the    wilderness     to  hear     a  prophet,  or  a 
mountebank?      There    is    a      difference    of 
i  pinion  on  this  subject.     A    • 
gospel  who  indulges  in    the  quirks  1 
ities  and  vulgarisms    which  continu 
from  the  lips  of    Sam  Jones    is  certain    to  he 
called    a   sensation-monger     and   montehank. 
lie  must  inevitably  be  confonuded  with  such 
thai  reprobate  and 

■led  fraud  the  "Rev"  Johnathan 
Haskell,  who  for  many  years  preformed  the 
a  circus  clown  in  the  summer,  and 
that  of  a  Methodist  revivalist  during  the 
■hen  his  circus  was  in  winter  quar- 
ters. Old  J  ttling  irrever- 
ent, auctioneer-like  si  hing  that 
drew  amazingly,  was  always  in  demand,  and 
paid  even  better  it  anything  than  the  circus. 
When  Sam  Jones  tells  his  auditors  not  to  "sit 
still  like  a  lot  of  brass  monkeys,  but  shout 
when  they  hear  something  good,"  he  is  very- 
amusing  indeed,  and  his  congregate 
rapidly.     But  this  is  the  Johnathan    Haskell 

'  drawing  ciow, Is.   and  it  prejudices 
the  conservative  while 

grieve.  It  is  a  fault  and  a  blemish.  It  d<  es 
not  give  real  iiilluencc  or  strength  to  the  dis- 
course. Buffoonery  makes  a  '  jar-coat- 
ing  for  the  gospel  medicine. 

•:.   X.   II.    Nov. 

AV.yV, '        '  '    Kinsman: — Your   es- 

teemed fa\  or  ol        tl  '  :     ore  me  and 

contents  noted  with  interest.  You 
have  been  told  that  you  are  "a  little  queer  at 
times."  Well  who  ain't,  that  is  anybody? 
Yes  it  is  undoubtedly  an  element  of  Atavism 
family  is  never  entirely  eradicated. 
(Darwin  1  I  know  my  father  and  most  of  his 
offsprings  abound  in  it.  Of  my  Unde  Hub- 
bard and  your  Gr't  Grand  sire  I  know  but 
little  about  he  died  in  my  youngei 


5  8 


'His   11ASKK1.I.   J0URNA1 


bably  in  the  third  decade  of  the 
nineteenth  century.  My  record  of  him  and 
family  is  from  S.  S.  who  did'nt  give  his  de- 
mise 1  recoiled  he  «  as  a  v<  i  >  mild  inoffi  n- 
sive  appearing  man  of  pious  mclaiicholly 
aspect  ol  straight  Hosskensiouism,  I  don't 
think  his  family  were  very  queer  or  cranky 
excepting  Capt.  Noah  and  perphaps  S.  S.  a 
title  so  occasionally  of  him  you  know  more 
than  I.  When  1  was  a  boy  Noah  I>.  was 
master  bound  to  Newburryport  had  tun  ol 
his  maiden  half  sister,  I  think  Anna,  as  a 
passenger  on  board,  being  overtaken  by  a 
gale  he  concieved  a  notion  of  cutting 
the  mast  in  ordei  to  ride  out  the  storm  ami 
when  about  to  dismast  the  vessel  urged  his 
sister,  who  was  sick  below,  to  conn 
and  witness  the  si  ene  for  her  special  benefit, 
here's   Romance,    which  >    coolness    lost 

him  his  employment.  Once  more — my 
brother,  A.  I...  told  me  years  ago  that  he  ad- 
vised Capt.  Noah  to  look  aftet  his  hoys  and 
do  something  to  straighten  them  out,  he  re- 
plied that  there  must  he  so  many  row.. lis  in 
the  world,  and  thee  may  as  well  he  me  boys  as 
anybodies.  Resignation.  Well,  he  went  to 
Missouri,  engaged  in  flying  machine:  "Birds 
can  fly,  why  not  I?"  1  don't  know  the  result 
ol"  his  close  cabin  labor — a  few  years 
one  sent  ire  a  newspaper  clipping,  "Capt 
Noah  D.  Haskell,  aged  90,  died,  formerly  of 
Newburyport,  Mas-." 

Whether  his  uncommon  equanimity  had  a 
tendency  to  his  longevity,  as  he  was  never 
known  to  get  off  his  l>ase  or  lose  his  temper, 
it  he  had  any  to  lose,  1  know  not  but  I  have 
heard  of  several  cases  in  our  race  to  militate 
that  idea.  There  was  old  Aunt  Ilitty  of 
Gloucester  who  died  a  short  time  ago  at 
nearly  a  hundred  years.  She  was  a  strong- 
minded  queerist  of  free  thought,  of  whom 
Wendell  Phillips,  in  his  address  at  her  funer- 
al, said,  "she  was  oik-  of  the  most  vigorous- 
minded  persons  he  ever  knew."  Preacher, 
lecturer  and  disputant,  when  -lie  was  90  she 
shut  me  up  twice  in  ten  miuuies.  One  thing 
she  said  to  me.  "I  don't  care  how  much  a  man 
swears  if  lie  don't  cheat  and  he."  Slavery 
and  intemperance  kept  hei  at  white 
several  years.  Still  she  lived  ami  thrived  for 
oS  years.  She  had  a  sister  Sarah  the  very 
opposite,  calm,  mild,  and  lovely,  eonfi 
peaceful  and  happy,  she  lived  one  year 
longer, — score  1  for  conformity,  daughters  of 
Aaron,  I  75  I ;  of  Joseph  and  Sarah 
Mehitable,  1782;  here  I  am  driftii 
when  1  get  the  pen  in  ink  I  can't  li 
Perag 

I  remember  one  queerism    in  S.  S  .  as  told 
me  by  his  eldest  brother,    Hubbard,    he    met 
Samuel  who  asked  him  to  hi- 
that  night  and  he  sure  and  bring  hi 
lie  did  so  and  it  was  S.  S.  wedding    Sai  nea- 
tuenss).      The    family    were    prin 
Sweedenborgian  faith.     Noah, Jonathan,  you 


know  about  Noah  Jr„  and  Samuel  Jr.,  1  don't 
!  ii.  «  ab< ml . 

I'.v  the  way.  I  would  •    the  rec 

S.'s  .  hildren'.s  .  hildren,  I  hi 
what  vou  gave    me     Benjamin,  1  Robi  rl    and 
S.  S.,  li  .  I  have  not.)      I  am  rejoi,  ed  to  know 
thai  .1  Haskell  ol  m\   kith  and    kin    can   beni 
to  be  disowned,    disinti  b   red    and 

still  keep  his  .  qnanimil  ived,  dis- 

couraged de  up 

noble  hero!  (',,  ,1  helps  those  who  helpthem- 
ielvi 

Who's  It.  h'.  Haskell?  I'd  rather  drive  n 
team  than  have  a  team  drive  me. 

"Honor  and  shame  from  no  condition  rise. 
Act  well  your  pari  there  all  the  honor  lies." 
I  can't  imagini  w  In  re  Kd\\  in  1$..  got  the 
Dudley  idea,  I  have  nevei  seen  the  names 
connc.  ted,  excepting  the  Dudley  C.  Haskell, 
Congressman    from    Iowa,    who    would  have 

stood  a  % !  chance   to    he     Presith  111 

United  States  had  he  lived  lone,  enough. 
Send  to  your  Congressmen  and  get  a  copy 
of  the   D.  C.  Haskell  memorial. 

descent  had  have  been  1  lainied  to 
[Carl  lleneward  1  should  not  be  surprised  as 
it  is  not  the  first  time  thai  it  hasbeen  claimed. 
\,,  Leicester  01  I  ludley  in  relation  thereto 
can  he  shown.  The  earliest  I  km 
name  is  f.ascell,  l.ascele.  l.ascall.  then  As- 
'  de,  laspiicte  Hasjal,  Haskall  and 
finally  Haskell. 

If  Heneu  ard,  the  father  1  f  old  Cedrii  in 
Ivanhoe,  is  in  the  chain  the  link  is  broken. 

•dn  nature,  chain  whatever  link  you  strike 
Tenth  or  ten  thousandth  breaks  the  chain 
alike. 

Wherever  from,  here  we  are,  a  queer, 
cranky  set,  and  for  one  1  donl  1  r<  ; - 
dodge  it — good  as  the  average  of  the  human 
race  and  no  better.  I  never  knew  one  hung 
hut  one  ought  to  have  been,  he  descended 
from  the  first  Mark  to  Massachusetts  Stair's 
prison  and  worl  ed  irr  my  gang  when  I  had 
a  contract  of  sixty  men  there.  He 
Norfolk  count\  Mark's    sons 

settled  in  the  seventeenth  century.  I  have 
a  good  history  of  that  faniih  .  Hut  of  Rogei 
the  mascot  of  the  trio,  I  have  hut  little.  Set 
tied  at  Salem  the  children  scattered  to  New 
Hampshire.  Vermont,  Northern  New  York, 
phy  Hascall,  hence 
Rev.  Jefferson,  Squire  li  ,  and  Home  Hascall 
and  my  niece  I.i/.zy's  husband  Bailey  of 
■     who  send    me    the     Thunderer    or 

no  crank  about  him. 
1  red     imaginations    is    usually    the 
■  In  a  hen  they  gel 

threppene,  pul    01  :  to    stand 

nil)   1  icket,  and,  no  matter    how    liiey  ^'ot    it, 
look  dow  11  on    those   .,    ■  to    be  as 

as  smart  as  they.     But    1    newer    knew    one 
cruel,    hard-hearted,     unfeeling,     except   the 
■  Ding  his    son    for    marr>  ing  a   nice 
lady  against  his  wii.i.. 


THE   HASKELL  JOURNAL. 
TI  I  B  and  Hon.  1>.  II.  Haskell    li  id   Ui  pay  tl 

Haskell  Journal  2:;::::: 

iK-mini  i..  iiu    ii.  .     ik-.ii>4!)        ..,.,,.!.>  .,.,.!   cm  run  scribcrs  have  paid  almul  lour  bund  red.     The 

ocn^lu  iuU'urB l'"  ' '*  '  "'"'    !iasbeen    advanced    b\ 

ilugical  Journal  representing  fift)  ililTerenl  named  above, 
families,  anil  devoted  to  general  an.l    current   litem-  [t  is  now   0   toll         Hid  this  is  but  the  April 

ture  .1-  well,  to  the  earl)  history  of  America  ami  the 

science  ami  art  of  geuealog,  nn.lhoral.lry.  nUm 

iiioni'i.  Now,  I    iin   the   pers  m   res| 

could  not  «et  the  papei    mil  ;    !  did    n 

EDITOR;    BURNETTE  G.  HA&KELL.  ,  ,       ,        .    ,  .        . 

the  money  to  '1"  it,     I    ' 
mmiicalions  sh  ailil  be  addressed  to  the  lit  IK  si     fl  mklli  Hit    I   I 

RI'l'HF.N  R.  HASKELL,  115  Kearny  St.      you  need  a  little 

BOARD  OF  PUBLICATION  work 

John  Leland  Haskell.  Preside  19  Va     Ness  Ave 

D.H.Haskell,  20  Sansqme  St.,  Cal.  Woolen  M      ,  As     I     said     h    fore 

R.  R.  Hi3!<2ll,    115  Kearny  St.,     Dianoad  Merchant.  ,  .  .  , 

B.C.  Haskall.  l2M3StanyanSt.,  Ai  ninety  seven  there  is     i  on    due. 

,  -p.,    every    one    0f     l]>(,so     wllO      \ 

AN    EXPLANATION.  k  I  will  send   il     ,vhen    lie    I 

which  will  cost    but   a   :  ,vo  cunt  stamp.      Uul 
ibei   !     i      i  ived  the  idea  of  the      ... 

ii   he  prefers   to  wail  till    1  am 
I  [ask  km.  Journal.     I  had  no  money  myself     ...  r     ...  ,   ,  , 

to  the  matter  I  will  rh  copies 

to  speak  ul,  but  I  went    to  see  Hon.  Dudley        f  ,,     ,  ,     ,.,,       ,  .  .        , 

1  •         of   the  JOURNAL  I"  In!  oul    111     Vi      ' 

H.  Haskell,    |ohn  L.  Haskell  and    R.  R.  Has-  , 

tion,  or   else  a   copy   ol   our      <  . 

kell  in    this  citv    and    laid    my    plans   before        ,   .         ,  •  ,       •,,  ..  , 

plete,  which  will  soni    I 

the"'-  I  want  to  say  right  here  thai  R.R.Haskell, 

[•or  twenty  years  I  had  been  investigating       ,,,,„     ,,     ,,     |Faskel]    am]    |o]in    ,      u^^ 

our    genealogy.      I    had    fully    live   thousand  havc  ,,„„,  L.v,r ,  . 

Haskell  names  resident  of  the  United  States.  the    Joi,RNAI<    win      t1kv    ,,ave    pa!|,    t]]cj 

1   believed,  and  "I    convinced   my  associates,  money  and  desjr,      ,                 .,,  it  up  at  thcir 

that    if     we    would    only    publish     a     family  own  expe] 

journal,     at     least      two     thousand      Haskells  I10t  permit.     Kither  it  m      I 

would  pay  two  paltry  dollars  a  year  in  order  ;f  |mis.  ,,,, 

to  know  who  their  grandparents  were.  ,      . 

It    is    a    shame    that   we  cannot   i 
I  started  tne  Journal,   and   it  cost  money  _  ,  ,.., 

paper  a  success.     <  lul  ol  '  ii  lml 

to  print  it,  bound  up    with    ribbon    and    with  ,  ,  ,  ,         . 

one  thousand    would   stati 
heavy  cover  paper,  thirty-two  pages  an  is  ;uc  ,  ,  . 

'  i  ess  W0U 

And    I    sent    in     fanuary,    February    and  .  •,,-,, 

grieved  at  this  ;    but    1    i   in  not    altei 
March  a  full  live    thousand    copies  to  each  of  .... 

conditions. 
ells  Of  these  £  .,,,  .,.,,,  .,      ,  , 

I  his  Haskell  I  unily 
I    received   twenty-two    hundred    and    four  ,.  •      , 

•    the    most    romantic    his',, v.-    and 
letters  giving  genealogical  dates.     Rut  onh  ,    , 

5  .  squarest  I     it    I    know   ol  -  and  yet,  the 

one  hundred  and    ninct  vscvcu    senl  two  dol-       ,  ■   ■, 

Journal  tail-. 
hir-  t"r  our  l..,ok.  !  wou,d  ljke   ,„    coll.ilulc    this  ,,. 

Mr.   R.    R.    Haskell.   Mr.  John    L.    Haskell      Do  you  feel  enough  inti  line? 


Till-:    II  ASK!'  !. I.    |(  H1KNA1.. 

Will  each  of  you  write  to  yom  OUR     WAILINti     i  \i'i  \>i  > 

and  ask  them  what  they  can  :  Under  the  Tnilcd  Si  as  an  at- 

Why.  there  was  General  Haskell  who  jusl      Uinicy  lmvinj!  years'    ex  peri 

"me   •'•'•^    ■- ul>a   the  other   day.     He       pvd 

died  on    parade.      Don'l    we   want    to   see  his      »»> 

,     ,       .  ,  .       ,  .  ■  mail  as  "sec- 

picture?      Don'l     we  wanl    to   know    Ins  hi,  |in|U.r>.     ,; 

Don't  we  want    to    hand    his  histoi        own  lo       p  ip>  -  li<  n." 

our  children  and  our  cl 

pn  ip  ril  I  he  San   '  i 

Hut  if  v.  :  , .,„  .„„, 

keep  the  |oi  i«n  u.  up     I  want  tothank  those      I" 

»-*■«»  >-„M.    -      T.       :. 

lint  the  monej    m  nnot    in  reason      by  the  l'i 

ask  those  gentlemen  vvli  so  much       ' 

nut.      I>ul  an  underling  in  the  s.m    I- ; 
already  to  contribute  more.     An.'    L  want  li        -  e,  with  his  bi 

sav  that  letters  cost  hut  I::!!,-,  and  1  wish  von 

in    advance 
all    wo,,!..!    write 

II 

i  ..I  i.i  i  journ    !•:   vou  ■-:    von 

'  '  have.  , ,      , \. 

havi  ■  deni 

lell  veil  this  year,  I       /i.<  pound  rates.      Why  iiol 

i ml      this?     ' he   l"*™Ke  w 

me    b it  t  t e  1 1  o i    t  v 
which  every    Haskell  a   hundred.     Why     the  discrimina 

i   icre  are  pic-      li 
,       ,  ,       .      ,        ,.  1'\i.'Ij;i.im.:  "Well,  I  never  saw  anvthine 

tures,  deeds  and  patents  ;   there  are  warrants      like  tli 

of  honest  work.     The  historv  <  : 

ought  t.  i       ed  in  print.  I»tml 

Ulouet  yon  will  : 
[Jut  meanwhile  let  I  n  order  to 

be  fair  to  the   two   hun  o    have    j 

give  a   hint  to  fortv-i  "•  rkins,    Con 

not,   that   this    last    nu     I  igressman   C.   A. 

contains  a  brief  summary   of  our   fa  mi  y  his-  Vs  a  result,  I 

tory  for    a    thousand 

plete  ;  of  course  the  \  pparcntl        ntervened, 

not    there  :    of  course    it    is    I  s  alul    l"  "»l :"    ",l' 

legends  and  m  ,  ^.^ 

verified.      Hut.  such  as  it  is,  it  is  given,  and  1       must  bear  a  two 

think  the  two  hundred    who   have    paid  will  \  how  much 

agree  that   if  the  January,  hcbrtiary,  March 
and  April  numbers  arc   bound  togrthe.,  thai  ' 

iiii..  .1  mil  rates, 

the    hundred  an 

resulting  will    he  worth    to    them    more  than      [., 
they  havi 

And  if    ■  re    may  ;; 

be  somethiiiR   el  in  the  future  u  !"  ^xU-[ 

. 
th,s  ProJect-  neralhasan  an- 

All  comnmnications    may    hi 

dressed     to    1%     R.    IIaski  i.i.,      115     Kearny      nol 
street,  San  I;ram  isco,  Cal. 


li  '  •     1 1  ask  1:1.1. 


ht  to  be 
bercd  by  ..II  u 


Special    Notice. 


IIASKKU,  JOl'RN  \I.. 

SUDDEN  DEATH  OF  GENERAL  HASKELL. 

i,  O.,  Sept    16, 
I  died    suddenly   at    his  home    at   the      to  he  the  I 

Columhus  post  at  about     l. 30  this    afternoon 
lie  was  stricken  with    apoph  <\ .  I 
meut  through   «  hit  h    he  h  id 
the  day  being  the  imnicclinti    ■  ins.   ol  1  . 
tack. 

Gen.  II  nnanded  the    17th  I'liil 

States    Regulai    infantn     at   i Ik    k  tile  ol     l\l  Vou    111 

Caney  and  was  wounded  in  the  left  shoulder 
and  knee.     IK'    came  home    about  a    month  They  will  be  : 

ago  and  was  iapi  ig.    The  wound  1  ilaced    in    1  la- 

in his  shoulder,   however,  had  his      R.    R.'  II 

left  arm.  Kearney    street,    I 

This  morning  the    17th  regiment    returned       kindlvcon 
home  and  Gen,  Haskell  w<  nl  to  1 

ge  to  welcome   his  men.      He    rode  at  'I 

the  head  of  the  regiment    thiough  tin 
the    post,    and     the  cheers  ol     the 
crowds  that   lined    the  streets    wen 
almost  ;ts    much   i"    him  as    to  the 


A   REMINISCENCE 


At    the     reviewing  stand,    the 
rounded  the  carriage  and  How 

!  into    the  vehicle    from  ev< 

At   1 .3  1  this  afternoon  C:ipt.  Clay   called  ;il 
Gen.  Haskell's  residence  to   pa\   his 
The   general   was    resting    at   tin,    time    bul      '  »' 
came  down  stairs.     The.    had  been    engaged  ■ 

in  conversation    about     five    minutes,    when      "  ' 
Gen.    Haskell  suddenly     started     to  his    feet       l;reiichiii 


LOS1     REM1  !  fA.NCES 


clasped  his  hands    to  his  head  and    then  fell 
t<>  the  floor.     The  onlv  exi  I 

sistance  and    was  surp. 
nu  >e     hail   ceased     t<>     beat.      I'm:  l  1 

1,1   1  nil.  initlances 

'ichcr  was  called  am  ,,    .   ,  i.uiees 

,  .  ,  ...  that  1  have  ne\ ei  r<  1  en 

caused  by  apoplexy.     Mrs.  Haskell  was  pn 

trated  b>   her  husband's  death. 


an) 

Am.. Hi.  1-     Xu^i-li:w,. 

nients    of    the    various    businesses    of     the  In  ihi- 

Haskells,    which   publication    has    been  done      Mo  Kin  1. 

without  authority   but 

courtesy  extended     might    ind  General 

nent    advertisement.     Those    ■■■  ho    have    re-      hist 

ceived   tins    courtesy  well   might  understand       Di  di  K\     C.    11 

these    facts:  family     and    connections,    he 

ImksT:  That  if  5000  Haskel 
together  they    could  come    pretty    near  run-  It'  you 

■ling  this  country.  havi  Id  not  be 

SKe'i>Ni>:  That    out    ol     the     5000  at    least      a  ; 
■\<y*,  are  in  business.  1  it.' 

r>:     That    every     Haskell    ouglil  ,   .  .      . 

patronize  every  other  I!  „:  ' "  lIi- 

.ell.  i.e."  in- 

hot  1  .111  That   if    but    roooof    the  "busi- 
ness"   Haskells  would    guarantee 
tisement  ol    one    im  li   for    1 

r  \ear  that  it  would  bring    him  in 


Note 
l'ers   ■ 
business  than  any  other  form  ol   Tulvertisii 


would  alone   enable  the  J<  1 


niii  iiaski  i.i,  ioi'k: 
A  SUCCINCT   HISTORY. 

Of  the   Haskell   Family  From   the   Year  roh  and  is 

860  to  the  Present  Day. 

I  his    I) 
si  i  ml  isi    from 

i 
■ 
twecn  liar,  ml  ai  i!    Will  ■    lnriu-.l 

:  I 

de    I 


tin.  men  « 

» 

• 

til 


' 

:     ,  now. 

I 

■ 

I 
■ 

■'       i     ; 

in  ■ 

• 

I 

M 
whose  arms:  "  I:    rry  . 
Uik: 

died 

rdurc  vaire, 
le  to  -ivt-  in  detail  I  lie  jjene-       qu;  '"  nt   '»• 

i.l  hi--li.iv  ol  the  I'.ei    i 
mily  from  tin 

one  n  11 

■ 

i    de  Vil- 
Kebninn     ni 


Till-    llASIs  KM.  J(  IURNAI, 

cries,  Ihc  Lord  i  CJill 

lie  l.i»ne  mid   i 

,      i 
1..  Hum  eaine  anil     joined   llei  l'l 

U    !. 

in-.. 
Ciuy   di 

Stephen  Ic  :•  :    il    v.  .is    during 

llial  ('.ilLc-rl  li 
sal.lc."      I5(irii 

Then 
:il.(.ul   hiin,  luil 

r,  t<«>rii  in  i.w  '  rn  ami  ;i n  liumli 


M    ■ 
azure." 

r,  born 
.li.  .1    in     i  167, 

,-tV. 

A 11  oilier    account    ol 

l 

\illiaiu,  win 
Oilbcrl 

iiuiuairici  me.    1 

Sum 

h    full  (k- 
tails    ol   tlio 

( 

Bi    I    1 
I 
of     l-;n»laiicl 
Consort  1 
et(  • 
Then  the  autlioi 

netH 
■;  1  The    hisi 

n<l  the 
ic  Con- 
There  :  ' 

- 



1  1 1  -  -    1  lec  Crespo  •  <  . .     1 

Genealoi 

I 

I     I 

nun 

Aiijou  :  ^laiul. 

■ 

■ 

: 

: 
royi.1  Kii  ' 


G.|  THI-    IIASKKU. 

i  nd    »l   tin     name,    H 

■  istinn  name    not    ti 

ngN    foil 

,  mid    .1!     ;;, 
Chateau  tie 

■:•  \  l  III.  Dub 

isl      !  I  e n r  v    1 .,   I 

.  :    i,     , 
n 

Oosselin,     I'.an.n     .In      II. 
d'Kslrapagny,  etc. 
I 

i !  v  u.s   |>K  sent  ill   I  In 

; 

du  I're,  inn  I.    U\     lit  nrv    li 

IK-  espoused  !-  iheaii  du    1*1 
Dangu,  l-v  vvluim  he  luul:    i.   William,  whose 

■  ■ 

j     Vlai  tl  ;i  Harmi 

Christian     nai 
and  at'teru  anl  i  lisors. 

Crespin,  .!'!■  - 
■• 

IK    end 

I'llr.r.  onrt,  I  lame 
tie  l.isoi  i 

court:  l.v    hei     he     had       i     V\  illiam,    win  sc 
genealogj   f.  II.  as.   j     : 
ariit,    who 

;i  em     du     I!   i 
11 

lie  was  on.  iied  i..  St. 

Germain  en  I, a; 
serviee    to    ( 
San.crre,  D.-.nn 
ol    Ktieime,  Seign 
l.\    wlion    I 
'  i .  Wi llinm 

;     I.  ....    S«  ign 
I 

wile,  Am 
leaving  li 

. 
issue 

V    Ungues,  who  found.  .1  tin    l>rai 
Seigneurs  de    Umirri.  h    will  he 

found  farther  on. 

Willi 
trapagny,  d«-  1) 
of  l-rance,  eti  . 

II,    v  ul    I- rani  e 

■ 

>:ii uts    in 
St.  I  .mi 

IK-     n 
daughter  of  William,  I! 
Seigm  mi  do   la  l.uthui 
Coiistahl 


IOURNA!.. 

Imsb   nd    TI  i  ■ 
■    the    \l> 

11-  wife  died  ill   i  71,  when  William  insti 
I 

nf  Mi 
In    |>n  1    1 
noritj     0 

of   all   the     1  di  pelidcil 

Hi 11    whirl,  was  i-  Ins.  d  1  im. 

1.   William,  •-. 
•    Jean,  u  ' 

illy,    William    having     died     without 

de  Dan- 
el 
He  ap|  liers  H  innei 

t  the  () 
Chaiuleleur  on  the    1  :lli  1         1  eemher, 

■  ike  part   in   the  M  against 

linings. 

Home/.,  daughtei 

of     Thih  ur    de    Home; 

Marguerite    de    Villeheon,    his    s.  eond    wife, 

itates  of  whom 

Hec-Cri  spii  Ci  111  pie  tie  koncv,  who 

:  .vil'i 

th  atl  in  the     .  vh,  n     hi? 

v  idou   ohl  l t in    '  In  :    dowei     1 
in    N'orm 

Jeanne, 

■'      in.  seeond 
of  the    name,    Count    ol   Tane.in  ill 

Crespin,  win.  married  Jean  tl 

if,    Cumpte    d'Auxerrc   el  de  Ton- 

l 

de   Dangu 

receding,   lie 
.    l»ev    of  ( lamer 

William,  tsscnil.ly  of   l.i 

131N. 

Tlniry,  had: 

1 .  Willi  uf  l 

■ 
Touiiielm,  hriugiiiK    to  him 

: 

I) 


Till-    HASKKU.  JOURNAL. 

I     Blanche  du  Bee  Cr<  spin    \)  s  ol    h  'i  lw<  ul  married 

who  was  lirst    married    to  l.oi 

r,  Gram 
ami  who  was  living  in  the  yi  ;h       N'orimmdj  .  ■  l<       Sin     ■ 

tin-  time  of  her  death  is  not  known  \  I.     • 

William     iln      Her  Crespin  Rouen,  to  « 

Manny.  Due  d     limiihmi,    . 

tt  app 
me  nt     m    I'cbn 
Crespin  was  sentem  til  to  pa; 

:'  does  nut  appeal  i  165. 

And  111  the  follow  ing    yeai     the  |) 

him  the  righl  e  w  hieh   the  si  He   li  id       Dei 

claimed  from  Sain'l   Den< 

He  ma  1 
death    took    I'm    a    second    husl.aiid    Jean 
Merit  ourt),  who  O-hern  ' 

1.  William,    eighth    ol     the    nam 
genealogy  follows. 

2.  leanne,    married     in     March,     i',,i.     to 

Raoui,  surnamcd  Hei|  The   V"A    England   American    Branch 

1    and     upon     his    death 
fean,  S<  igneui  de  Crev.  ...   11    and    di 
It  is  recorded  th  it  she 


.!      .'.   I 


I  ■         .      ■  .. 

anthoi  of  the  M 


.  ■  ns  v.-  re:     "   \ 


in  li:i 


William    du     Dec  Crespin,    • 
name,  Seigneur  de    Maiinv,   and    afterw..... 

ne.l       Un:r" 
from  the  hands  of  those  to  whom  the  C<  ni| 

of  the  esl    ' 

He  was  with    the    M 

;7". 
and  continued  to  re:, 
kini,'  in    the  sin 

d  from  his  est    te  in  N 
to  attend  tiie    cxpcdil  ion   that   I 
about  t«i  make  1 
and  U  l.i 
the  Constable  de  L'liss  .11 


He  married  th 
(hci     Christian    name    is     inn 

brought  him  the  estates  and  '"  r-    a,ul    lu"    I 

dignity  <-l"    •  Dame  d. 


-    Charles 


Dciivs  en  la-ton.  t-.le-l/ 
■ 
lows: 
j.   Ide.    married    to    l.onis    il 
Chevalier,  of  whom 

li-  ■  Southern  Heiskell  Branch. 

\\  ilham.  Seigneur    du    '■.  1 
el  de  S  tint  Denys,  Saint    \.u  111. 1  rrev    () 

I 
against  the  Knglish,   ind  on 
Knglish  -■ 

them  to  Mr  John  halcoirin   1  . 
ever,  did  not  retain  them  h 

lie    married  Jacqueline     d    \ 
whom  In 

2.   Robert,  Uish    of  I, ami 
his  eldest    hrother.    |e  in,    t< 
wind,    he    .lid 
Archbishop  o 

j.    leanne    du 


or.  Tiir  ii.\SKi:i.i.  JOURNAL. 

whose  history  i^  entirely  unknown,  bul  who  [,eah  Wilder  was  born  in  II 

is  supposed  to  have  perished  on  a  pearl  hunt  jUn                      and    died    at    !           ().,  M 

in  the  South  seas,  and    Albert    lieiskell,  born  ,     ; 

irried  1826,  died    1856.     II..-    married  Kdware  Wilder  Haskell  wi 

Mary  Fdwards  and  had  but  one  son.  bei       ,17    -;  married    in    1S15,    and    died    in 

Albert   !•..    Haskell    of  Chicago,  born  !*.•;.  ,  .  ..        u,                        lent  ol    Vermont,    mar- 
died    inn,,    at    Chicago,    was    the  editor's  in-  rted  lCluthcria  Newton  and  had  live  < 

to  I    ese    facts.     II.  ■    changed  his  Mrs    \ .. ,  '      :,  ,  ()rd 

name  from   lieiskell  t.                   1     d  gave  the  theii  dati 

editoi  valuable  MSS  ;  also,  being  unmarried,  1.  George      Horn  November  11,  1 

gave    linn   some  money  which  was  to  be,  and  in  1  sr , - ,  leaving  three  children. 

11,  expended  in  reference  to  the  Has-  .-.    Kdward      Born   Dec 

kcll  and  Heisk<  II  gen.  i  3.  Chau            0 

II..-  was  the  joint  authoi  with  the  editor  of  1X24;  still  living;  no  issue, 

our  first  preliminary  pamphlet.  4.   Klutheria                             lolph,  Vt.,  April 

Details  of  the  New  England  Branch.  '  ;"-    "K^d    '3    years,    7    moil 

Nathaniel  Oshern  Haskell-Bom  February  ^Wilder— Born  in    Barnard,  Vt     | 

-"•.  1.  .;>.  married  1757;    died   1S23,   at    Hard  ,s' l8a6;  ,1;,  ,1    \„BUS,   - 

wick,  Mas-..    He  was  a  resident  ol  Hardwick,  Kdward  Wildei   Haskell   was  born  Decern 

married  Lydia  Foster  and  left  five  children —  ^er   ,    [S,      u)    ycnlK)„t       |], 

Prince.  Nathaniel,  George,   Jessa   and  Lydia,  for„7a  i  1 1  1840  and  married    Maria    A.  I'.riggs 

whose  futun  bistor)  is  unknown.  ,„  ,s  fi-     His  children  w. 

'•■v,iu  ''"  :'-    I '   '72        led   1776.  Bumette  G.,  born  June  n,  rSS7 

I'rince    Haskell     Born    April    26,    1758,31  Helen  M..  born  March  2.  1 

Rochester,    Mass.;    married  October   4.1781.  inward  Prince,  born  March  1 1 

at  Ilinghani,  Mass..  and  died    Maul.  3,  Is4i,  Benjamin  B  .  bom  Febmar)    |, 

at  Peru,  Ohio.      He  was    ,1   resident  ol    Roch-  Astarotii    Haskki.i.   follows   in  the   next 

ester,  Mass..  and  Peru,  O.      He  married  l.eah  gcneratj0I]i  and  js  now  the   head  of  the  llas- 

\\  ilder  and  had  eleven  children,  as    follows:  ....n  rnn,jiv 

1.  Kdward  Wilder  Haskell      Born  in  Hard- 
wick,   Mass.,    lime   5.  1872;  died  January    t,  WILLIAM     HASKELL. 
17S5  at    Haidwick  ;   no    • 

2.  Deborah    Haskell— Bom     in    Hardwick  a  Short  Account  of  the  Descendants  of  William 
March   18.  1784.  and  died    April    r6,    iS22,  at  Haskell  of  Gloucester,  Hass.,  by  Ulysses 

Vt.  0    Haskell  of    Beverly 

3.  Harriet  Haskell-  Bi  rn  in  Barnard,  Vt., 
June  9,  1786;  died  Julv  23,  1854,  at  Peru.  O.; 
no  issue. 

4.  Prince  Haskell  —  Horn  in  Barnard  Mav  2, 

■    Broil     n,   I  >.;  '75  Sainii. 

had  live  children.  \lh  \' 

5.  Kdward    Wilder   Haskell— Bom   in  Bar-  ,7<s  jv      William, b.  -  '-. 
nard  Septentbei    .                       d    1     bruary  21,  1 7<»  \       :■ 

Barnard;   had  four  children. 
C.    Nathaniel     Haskell— Born     in     Barnard  ^',     ;r.    \ 

■    mber  ;<>,  1871,  at 
iville.  <>.:   no  isMie. 

7.  Michael  Haskell-  Born  in  Barnard  No- 
vember 30,  170;,.  lives  in  JelVerson,  Wis.;  had 
six  children. 

8.  I...  -..  kell— Bom  in  Barnard 
August  .7  at  Bar- 


is;     1 

Ii.  -    -;    in.  Ki 

1H,.    IJ      l79(.. 

II.ua, .ih.  I).  -    •:    111.  Aimer   I'lii 

Ihci  of  Kicliar.1,  Jr. 

1N5     ii 

• 

iSh     i. 

.1 

1793- 

1S7      V 

Ksllu  r,  b,  -    -;    111.   luscpli   Tyl 

INS       \ 

i       I'licbi 

. 

ii     Asa,  Ii 

0,0       \ 

■•:,.  b.  -  -.   in.  imiiii-i  1 

■ 

191     i: 

<      Mary,  b.        ;  m.  NYU. 

.     Thorn. 

Haskell— Born  in  Barnard  Febru- 

j  list  20,  1S18  at  Barnard. 

10.   Adeline  ::.     in     Barnard 

August     29,     l8oi;     died     Match     1,     1872,     at 

( '..d.  sburg,  111.;  no  issue. 

II    -Horn  in  Bai  "'  •,,-'K-1 

nard  Jut,  lives   in    Peru.  O.;   ha. 

lour  children. 

Haskell    and     wife    I  l.eah    Wildei 
ill  Barnard.  Vt.,    February,    1785,  and      " 
I 


, 


i93     i 

IMJ             1 

u_)5     i 

i 

i.,7      i 

i.,S     i 

lyy     i 

William 

,.        |n.i. ,h.   1, 

iii   Mm,  li. 

•.      Isaac,  li 

Diiviil,  '■ 

i     JonMliaii 

1751. 

-•"•> 

31(1      \ 

i      Ruin,  1). 

ASKKU,  JOURNAL 


Some  Letters 

fortunate 

■ 

!     '  I 

•1  umbers  <>l    the  same 

tli'  o  f  1 1  it-    pa  j 

success. 

I  mi}- hi  be  able,  in  case  you    she 

bit   i:\  M. 

' 

■  '■'■   ^  ii »    'he    greatcsl 

yotii     admirable     undertaking,     and 
that  you  w  ill  cinumaiid  m< 

1 

1*  Ml    li.    Uaskku.. 

:    ..1   the    121!]  l-Vb.    re- 
■ 
formation 
as  to  the  nun 

liam  1  >.  Hask(  II.     'J' :  his   soi 

1  ha'  ■ 

I  will  try  1  I  MSS.  for 

u 

■ 
and    .  '  rd  of   ] 

Uachel.  li.  -   -;    111  r.i  ;,      and  your  <.  Horls    ire  all    I 

Miclia.  I  li  |ue|1(  .    .  .  from  the 

-•■•;     1        Mark,  '•    17  :  ;;    •■  a    Utiii    Call    be 

:\     .'• 
,        ;,      .  ses    County, 

!-,.,     iii     1  ,| ,,  ,                                                                   Massachu  '                                             ua'.ed;  ami 

the  d  "j;  the 

-"'7     v       '                                                                           widl  from  valur.ble  re- 
231     i        William    I 

»ii     iii     -  !  clu''    ' 

?||     u  "l(l  "' 

vim  will   si  •  lei  ins.   1 

In  be    inserted    111    youi 
I   rejrn 
Simeon,  1  I  ha' 

.       Thomas.  1     1 

1.1  al 
T     I 


ri:. 

All    Isaac 

Rowe 

-  i 

mipau)   at  il 

l)i 

ii 

Aan  in,  l>.  i 
lereuiiah, 

i\ 

\ 

Klizabelli, 

\  1 

1 

Susan,  !..  - 

J  -•  S 

ii 

Annie,  1.. 

iii 

■ 

b 

juii.-'illian. 

1;  1 

i 

-•=,i 

ii 

Ileiijamin, 

i\ 

Jonathan 

.      -■ 

1 

. 

■.  i 

Reuben.  1 

68  Till-    I !  ASK  l.l.l.  JOURNAL. 

There    ore    three     Haskells    in     [pswicli,  I    will    enclose    you    one    of    the  Colonel's 

Mass.,  at    the    present.     Don't    know     their  photographs   taken    just    before    he    left   for 

given  names.     One  Haskell,   Attorney  al  Tampa.      IMeasi 

Law,    Low.  II,    Mass.       Anothei         lla  Sincerely,  Un>.\  li    II 

Deputy    Sheriff,    Pittsfield,     Mass      Another 

—  Haskell.  Medical    Stu.lent    Harvard  Med-  A    FUNNY     iiiin<, 

ical  School,  Boston,  Mass.      He  is  also  a  foot  t  have  a  cousin,  a  Haskell.    She  has  money, 

ball  player  on  the    Varsity    lileveu,    playing  1    sent     hei    I 

'•right  guard."  subscril.e.        Instead    ol  is      two 

[  find  in  the  obituary  of  Goodcll    sent  you  dollars  she  wrote  asking    me    to  spend,  say  a 

that  Albert  C.  Goodell's    mother  was    a  Has-  week,  in  pi  nd    sending    : 

kell.    As  he  edited    the  re-publication  ol    tin-  that  she  was  of  revolutionary    ancestrv    ami 

o'd    Province  laws,    I    have  written    him  lor  entitled  to  join  the  "  Daughters  ol    thcRcvo 

cooperation  to  the  Journal.  lution,"  etc.     Well.  I    ne<  !      She 

Very  truly  wanted  fifty  dollars  of  labor  at  once,  and  she 

'■         ''■•  Haskki.l.  never  even  sent  her  two  great  American  <h>| 

The  New  (ieneration  lars  l"1  subscription.      She     will  nevei    -p.  a',. 

.      .,  .      .  ,,  ,,-,,,  '"  me  again  after  this  publication,  but      I 

In    this   issue     here    is  published  the  por-  two  dolla  pav  the  print, 

traits  ol    lour  ol   the  new  generation  ol    Has 
kells.     1  wish  that  we  could    publish  the  pic 


pui  red  me  iai  to  give  her  the 
itei 


our    whole  five  thousand       In    these  N(,    ,ess    t]l;M1    sevell  olliers   Ilave  asked  of 

days  of  cheap  process  work  from  photographs  me  thks   veritable    thing.     We    a,. 

it  does  not  cost  so    very    mu                         cc.i  ,landed  r:uv     sume  o| 

or  eight  dollars  would  covei   the   cost  ol  each  ,„  order  ,„  furnish  evidence    receivable  in 

P,^1ure-     ,     •  ,        •      ,           •    ,            .    ,,  ■'■  court  ol   lav.  ol   this  charact, 

rhe  first  picture  is  that    ol    Asteroth  H  work  is  necessary 

ras   we    know,  the  eldest  son  Understand,  \vith    5.    o    I!     kell     .  •    I,      I 

ol  the  eldest  son                                   ,,,,,,  now  living,  were  I   the  greati 

Ihe    next    ,s    that    of    Blanc hard    Haskell  expert  in  the  world.  1    coi.1.1    no.    atl 

Cron.se.  the  grandson  of  John  I..  Haskell  ,-„,,    llUt    „,„,    absoIute     ,„„„„„,„,    ,„„,,, 

Ihe   next    »    that   ol    lunest.ne    Haskell,  k.,s    t„    fi:rnisl,     v„u    ,,,,„,.,    affidavits    and 

I»ed«»Bh»«   ol   the   Hon.    Dudley    II    Has-  swor„  L.villeiICC  „,-  ,„„,  ',,,„    slam]    ,itl,„11t 

kcl1-    l,,e    account    ol    whose    marriage    you  labor  that  would  take  all  of  my  time, 

have  seen  in  the  Joukn.u..  Then  don't  ask  it,  even  if  vou  wan! 

ihe  last  is  Bessie  k.  Haskell,   the  niece  ol  ,    . 

Reuben  R.    Haskell,  and  her  I                      for  If  you  had  supported  the  Journal  as  you 

,,,             ..      ,          .  ,                ,      ,      ,  should  have  done,  in    time    all   of  these  facts 

It.  by  good  luck,  and  hard  work  the  Jour-  wm]k]  ,,  iv„  ,„.,.„  g.atliert-tl.  c<.llcotecl  and  put 

nal  should  continue   there  are  a  thousand  as  ;       ,ain    .                                                 ,uld  have 

good  looking  faces  that  ought  to    be    put    ...  (lra'u„  ,,,',,,  ()U„   ,,.,„. 

'"'  ''■  But  you  didn't  :  though  I  hope    henceforth 

From  firs.  Ueneral  Haskell.  inav. 

Columbus  Barracks,  June  27,  i  you  may    all    understand,!    want  to 

/!//-.  Ihunelte  C.  Haskell     Dkar  Sir  :  Vour  say  here  and    now    that    three    man! lis'  free, 

letter  to  ir.y  husband,  Colonel  J.  T.    Haskell.  unpaid    lor.  nnreinitting    seivices,   without  a 

was  received   this    morning.      Although  your  cent  ol   compensation,  hav 

letter  is  a  receipt  for  >_•    sulwcription   for  the  this  matter  !>y  our  staff  and  myself.     No  one 

Haskkll   Journal    nom  been  on  salary. 

have  been  received.     They  can  be  sent  here  We     have     no     time,     therefore,    to     hunt 

to  Columbus,  same  address.  through  the  hundreds  of  lists    and    find    out 

As  soon  as  war  was  declared  Colonell  Has-  who  you    are  and    what    particular   limb  or 

kell  was  ordered    to   Tampa,  Fla.,  where    he  twig  you  came  from. 

assume. 1  command  of  the  Seventeenth  Hinted  With  s. present  Haskells  each  proceed- 

States  Infantry,  which    regiment    was  one  of  ing  generation  doubles  the  numbei 

the  first  loaded  on  the    transports  and  one  of  that  must  be  looked  at  ill    order    to    make  ail 

the  first  to  disembark  at  Cuba.  authentic  search. 

He  is  at  this  time  in  command  of  the  regi-  Therefore,  I  will  not  engage  in  furnishing 

men:  in    front  of  Santiago,   mi  General  Law-  proof  for    any    one   hereafter.     It 

ton's  division—the  evening  paper  says  "  not  much  In  time  and  money. 

209  yards  from  the  entrenchments,  where  the  My  records  will  be  preserved.     Any  Has- 

Spaniards  propose  to  combat  the  advance  on  kell  can  see  them,  copy  them  and  can    punt 

.  0  de  Cuba."  •  I  .haw  the  line,  as 

Vou    can    imagine    that    I    feel  vers .ch  1  have  said  above,  so  far  as  my  personal  labor 

worried.  and  Si                              rued. 


THI-    HASKRU.  JOURNAL 

i»i:ic*o->  u.  ui'iimmimi'..  school  at  the  Mt.  Ilolvokc  h'emale  Seminar 

'- 


l.il.-    His:.,,-,  „l  :,  I'lililV 


Iii  the  summer  uf    1840  111  y.«  it  Al  K  ;l 

were  inviteil  l>\  Gov,  Pains,  of   N'orllil     I 

join   him  in   ari  excursion  to  the  Wlii  rtmeni.      11.  wasmi  liisrmil 

Convention  at  Ihirlington  in  a    "I.. 

We  took  along  with   ns    mj   pari  :  '  Irien.ls  ami 

and  selioolmate,  I),  b.  Weymouth.  scl,( 

Northfield     is    .went'  nrth     from  '         temptal 

Randolph.       We    reached    Northlield    in    i!i<        •i'"'  !':l"       '    A'  ,:' 
nigh  I  following  011 1  departure.     The     I  insulted  with 

was  drawn    hy    twelve    superh    gicv    horses      '  l! 

richly  caprisoned,   and    carried  tittv  persons,       who  all  and 

a  barrel  of    hard    cider    and  an     ample  com        left,  well  knowing  that  I  sboul. 
missarat.     The    stars  and   strip 

floated  to    the  bree/e:  a  small    howit/er  pro  I Muis  en 

truded  from  the  stern;    there  was  a    wooden      cral  v         t  is  all  rtght;  I  did  not 

latch  to  the  door  and  the  latch  string  "al-  like  study  and  I  never  should  have  aceoiupl- 
ways  out."  A  coonskin  was  stretched  upon  ished  anything  in  that  line  ol  business.  And 
the  outside  of  the  front  door.  now  after  a  period  ol    more  th 


m  ever  r> 


The  trip    lasted  three     weeks;     we   passed  '  ;1111  "' 

through  Monlpelier,  the  capital  ol    the  Slate,  *l>cnt  "               ' 

thence  along    the  Leant. ml    and    picluresqm  "way,  m    at  lea 

Lamoile     River,    singing    "Tippecanoe     and  employed. 

.,"  and  other  campaign  songs  amidst  '  returned  horn-  111  time  to  cast  in; 

the  plaudits  and    huzzas  of   the    people,  the  bal1"'  f"1  '  !  MM'"  : '■'"    •"'■'!    lylertoo 

waving  ol  banners  and  handkerchiels.  revious  to  leaving  I! 

Imagine    il    von    can,     my  deal     hoy,    the  ceived  a  letter  from  an  . 

■:ent.  the    delight,    the    enthusiasm  mate.  IJ    b\    Alvord,  who  had  charg 

which  such  a  demonstration  would    create  .11  Academy  in  Otsego  county,  New     \  ork.  and 

staid  old  Vermont    fortv  years  who  was  si.  '                                               nd  lake 

Crowds  met  us    mile's    before   we    reached  his  plan                         winter. 

the  various  town-  aud  villages  and  rode  with  As  -"""    :i"  ' 

us  and  followed  us  as  iv.  Ilc-nct    vu  R"llf»l1:    Albany 

ing,   singing  and    shouting    unid  all    tin  ' 

monstrations  above  refi  itively 

In  due  time  we  reached    Uurliii]  ton,  Rcan-  i: 

ty.  gently  sloping  toward    the   lovely  been  engaged  and  insl 

Lake    Champlain;     upon     which     it     rested.  ^11    here    1     was     without 

Here  I     visited    the     University      and    met  a  with  very  little  money  lor     11 

large  number   of   old   friends  and     acquaint  "P°"  H}«  1                                                        ,       . 

I  decided  to  trv  for    some  common    school 


ances,  among  others  Dudlej   C 


Our  candidate.  Gov.  I'aine,  wasm  :    the   winter.     I  wen.    west    enquiring 

I    w  us  t. 


nud     liiumph.intlv     v  loUd     al   tl 
election.    Hip,  hip.  hi  - 

The  following  year,  1S.11,    I  entered     I 
mouth    College.    Hanover,  New     11  I  arrived  al    • 


ged  and 
most  cases  si  liools  commenced. 


My  roommate  was  William  Arnold    lltitehin 
pperill,  Mass.,    Democrat.   Although 


1.      Here  I     met    an    old    friend.     There 


of  different   political    opinions  we    never  al-      '• 
lowed  politics  to  disturb  the  harmony  of   our      them,  da 
.personal  relations.  ■»'«'  "";    ll'e 

IK-  was  a  very    nice  clean,   sweet 
well  behaved  young  man  about  ,„>    . 

•  in   the    same     bed,  ate  at    thesa.t  a  little  hump 

"-■"  ■  lely 


boarding  house,  conned     our   lessons    hj   the       i'"1" 

light  of    the  one     astral    lamp,  walk,  ')    k"'kc' 

fished,  stole  fruil  nn,\  melons  and  vi 

girls  together     f 

ossorangrj  '°     >''■"' 

rdgood    evidence  ol    tin 

ability  of  my  disposition?     M 

by  letter    to   his    female  friends   at     home 

particularly    to    some  who    were  "T 


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70  Till-    1 1  ASK  !■:  1  I.  JOl'RAI.. 

lusion    given, 

in..:. Ih. 
An, I  sticks  out   'bout 
A. 1, 1  looks  first  rate;      II 
l-'arewcll  Cooperstown 
lake    upon  which   it    re: 

I<  -   Ccmpi  t    w  iili  \ .  ■  ■ 

Still  w<  stward,       1 
manufacturing  \  illagc  "I     l»utl 
I  >.\t  st«  rn    con 
county.      Here  I 
an  elephant  had  I 

.  re  exhausti 

I  hail  not    money  ei 
fare  to  the  11 
walk  lor  1  had  c< 
thus  fa  1   I   had  traveled    :n  .1 
a  gentleman.     Y\ 
■ 
nnich  tiim  .    ' 
and  self-reliant  to 
Aftei  suppi  1   I 
who     was    young,     1  ,'l.CI.      IIASKI  !  1.    v\    COBB   BROS. 

she<  ps'  cms  nt  the    I 
way  also  pulls-    and 
that  the  hostelry  wi  uld 
sojourn  for  a 
In  111     morning  I  I 

store  innnediately  o| 

■ 
rival  of  the    clerk  ol     the  ■ 
iolly  devil    as   ever    1p 
Uanselier,  one  of  the  p 
the  store— perhaps    ri.  li— 
proud  as  Lucifer    and 
ul 
However    he    treated   me   • 
vited    me  to    !:is    housi 
champion  pew  at  the  1 
I  accepted.      All  • 
I  was    well    dn 
sume,  not    bad  loi  kin; 
the    lime  honored     in 
mouth. 

I   said 
ovel   to  111 

with  the  clerk.      I  strolled  th 
liked   the    plai 

saucy,  giggling  chambermaid.      !■  HOlMI'S     1)00  l\      CO 

to  remain  for    a  lime  '  "  'l..\ll^      D\  'Wl\     v.  W. 

o  leave.     I 
able  penman.      I  dn 
writing  school,  went  ■ 

ory  and  obtaine<l  twi  

I  one  dollai  1 

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SPECIAL   NOTICE 


PLEASE     FILL     THIS     OUT     AND     MAIL 


iSqS. 


Rkubkn    R.   Haski-i.i.,    iis    Kearny  street,  San  Francisco.  Cal.: 

I  desire  to  say  to  you  that  I  think  the  EIaskki.i,  Joiikxai.  ought  to  lie  continued. 

That  I  propose  to  give  help  to  its  continuance  as  I  can. 

That  1  pledge  myself,  it'  the  publication  is  continued,  as  follows: 

[ST — Commencing  January,  iS8y,  to  pay  for  one  year's  subscription  at  a  rate  not  to 
exceed  Tun  Dollars. 

2Nn— That  I  will  send  my  advertisement  to  the  Joukxai.  if  within  my  means,  to  do 
so  and  try  to  obtain  others. 

sun— That  1  will  do  whatever  else  1  can  to  help  out  the  Joi-rnai.'s  success. 

4TH— I  have  the  following  other  suggestions   to  make  : 


Sign]  i>) 

N  A  M  I 


WORKS,     AUBURN,     PLACER    COUNTY,     CALIFORNIA. 

<K>c-<-:>  :■•:•■••:■•><••'■■"■■:•<• 

Haskell  Gold 

Mining  Company 

€>2.    eiincX    €>3     INe\/ac.f=i     Block, 
SAN    FRANCISCO.  CALIFORNIA. 

■x-x- :■■-■:  ••■■:■:••>■■:■:■  •<  : 

-*-  DIRECTORS-*- 


OFFICERS-*- 

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1 

\  ICE  PRESIDENT; 

.    SECRETARY   

TREASURER 

MANACER      ... 

..".,     1!    11    OAVLORP 
Gl  ■>.  IV.  OSBORN    JR. 

1>.  II    HASKELL 

,,    .          .HAROLD  T     POWER 
(Michigan  Bluff.) 

.  OSHORN   JK.. 
I).  II    HASKELL, 

MRS.  ISALINE  M.  POWER. 


ho:  for  KLONDYKE! 
LASTUFKA  BROS., 

Wholesale  and    Retail  Dealers  in  and   Manufacturers  of 

Harness.  Saddles!  Bridles,  %> 

Spurs,  Boots,  Whips, -Blankets,  *§> 

Carnages,  Buggies,  Carts  and  ^^^^^if  ^ 

Wagons,  etc.     A  full  stock  and  *§> 

Prices  to  suit  the  times.  *ff 

We  have  a  large  stock  of  Klondike    Or  wis,  such    as   sleds,    dog   harness,  pack  saddles, 
sleeping  bags,  gloves,  shoulder  straps,  blankets  and  woolen-lined  hoods. 

Wain  Store  :  37  Market  St.,  near  Steuart. 
Branch  Store  and  Factory  :    1575  Market  St.,  near  12th. 

Correspondence  solicited.  San  Ftancisco,  Cal- 

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WATCH.CS 

\^/\  -\  SILVER  PC.  irrj 

'URER'S 
RfiENTd 


^NUFACTURERJ    "  [{$  ftCARNtf  <§T'> 

i  Diamonds, 

(j  \  Rich  Jewelry  and 

*    *.     Watches. 

.    STERLING   SILVER  AND   PLATED   WARE. 
■  to  the  Pacific  Coast  Trade  for  Twenty  Years. 
5   KEARNY  STREET.  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


Golder)  Gate 
Loan 
Office. 

10  Sixth  street 

San  Francisco.  Cal. 

w.  jr.  iii:srn \i„ 


Watches    and   Jewelry  at  Lowest    Rates    of 
Interest. 


J.  Q.  Haskell, 

Architect   and    Superintendent. 

Fellow  of  the 

AMERICAN  INSTITUTE   OF  ARCHITECTS 
and  fho  KANSAS  ASSOCIATION  OF  ARCHITBCTd. 
I<»tabli*lieii  at  Lawrence  1S57. 

'"Tdiifkani  Haskell  A  Wood  In  1.S79. 
Ihirtj-nine  years  of  coutintioii-.  an.]  Micossial  practice. 
office  In  the  Btato, 
Now  of   Lawrence,   Kansas. 

S.  A.  HASKELL, 

LADIES'  CHILDREN'S  AND  INFANTS' 
FURNISHING  GOODS. 
FANCY  WORK  AND  NOTIONS. 

304  Main  street,  Painsville,  Ohio. 

PHILLIP  GUNDLACH'S 

CITY  HALL  WINE  VAULTS. 

CALIFORNIA  WINES  arc  superior  to  those  of  any  foreign 
Country.  1  hey  are  also, -heaper.  I  am  prepared  to  till  order- 
anywhere  in  the  United  states  for  lauterae,  Gutedel,  Tohanuiss 
berg  Rcbling  (extra  old),  Zlnfandel,  Burgundy,  sherry  p..rt. 
Angelica.  Muscatel,  Tokay.  Madeira  and  Malaga;  also  California 
Brandy,  These  arc  absolutely  superior  to  roreiifn  brands  Cor- 
respondence is  solicited. 

F»hIHp    Gundlach, 

13  nod  rs  CITY  hali.  SQUARE,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

EXPERT  WATCHMAKER  AND  JEWELER. 


I  respectfully  solicit  tlte  trade  of  the  Ilaskells 
here  and  abroad.  [  guarantee  satisfaction,  both  as  to 
price  and  quality  of  work.  I  hardly  think  there  is 
•ny  watch  or  clock,  antique  or  modern,  that  I  cannot 
repair.  I  refer  to  the  editor  of  the  Journal. 
D.  BEHRENDS, 
1162  Market  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


Ben.  B.  Haskell, 

ATTORNEY   AND   COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW. 

409  California  St.      San  Francisco.  Cal.